1-8-2026
Good morning dear friends-today, I’m grateful for…
Waking up, in so many ways
Less scrolling, more peace
How my pal Louie is such a good listener
Time to make a batch of sesame tahini cookies after getting home from work
Feeling sturdy, capable, and solid
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝
1-7-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How there will always be stories
A welcome sense of peace
Seared ahi tuna steaks with a sesame tamari marinade and garlic roasted potatoes
Room to breathe and dream
Tucking all my ancestors and relatives in around me
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝
1-6-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Nora’s cheerful squealing
The poetry the land gives
Extended time on the acupressure mat
A new quest—looking for the perfect foot stool
A different way to prepare tofu that works beautifully
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🫂
1-5-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
My sister, Jane, for being born
Reading poetry before falling asleep
Discovering the art of Charley Harper through a thrift store puzzle
Setting new boundaries
Sesame ginger tofu with power greens and garlic
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝
1-4-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A most delightful day with my sister, Peggy, that included zucchini fries, thrifting, and help loading up what’s now my new home office desk
Scoring two more bird houses at the thrift store that I will turn into refillable feeders
Moving bad memories on and away
No agenda today
When I finally pulled out that painful stubborn splinter
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝
1-3-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Waking up with renewed purpose and intention
Moonlight as backdrop against the silhouettes of bare trees on the ridge
When the kindness of others brings tears of gratefulness
Shopping for a new coatrack or hall tree for the entryway
Plans to make a savory white bean and kale soup
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍳
1-2-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The peace that comes from stillness and contemplation
Seeing the land all dressed in white
An injury slowly healing
Fierce and unflagging support from all directions
Folks who show up
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🐈⬛🏳️🌈
1-1-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Having a safe and healing place to hunker down during the New Year’s Eve weather
Joe and Marie’s company, good food, thoughtful conversation and vision boards between us
Andi’s kind and encouraging persistence
What living intentionally feels like
The lentil soup from Aladdin’s, with falafel and hummus on the side
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎆
12-31-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Glimmers of possibility and hope
365 daily gratitude posts, all on this website
Good friends who cheer me on
How the cut on my finger stopped bleeding, finally
Filling the house with wonderful aromas of baked cookies, vanilla, cinnamon and honey
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨🐝
12-30-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A heart-shaped cutout in the clouds for an instant, filled with the pale blue of a cold winter sky
The telling howl of a transformative wind
Just how much my heart can hold
Still coaxing satisfying meals from Christmas leftovers
The next big work project
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄❄️
12-29-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A delicious grilled sandwich with leftovers: ham, raisin and candied orange peel sauce as jam, and a lovely bella tano cheese on crusty sourdough
Clearing out and downsizing four totes from the scary attic
Gentle time spent walking and talking with the land, gathering wild materials for art ideas
Teaching myself mechanical and household maintenance stuff
When the cats don’t knock over and unplug my hearing aid charger pod while I’m asleep
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄
12-28-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A simple to-do list for today that includes going into the attic
How every day involves art and creativity in some fashion
Plans for a new chicken coop and run using one of the truck caps I have
A spontaneous cup of tea at midnight
This week’s lineup—a massage, more downsizing, vision-boarding with Joe and Marie and finishing a small sewing project
What are grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄
12-27-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Sleeping this head cold away
Finally getting a work project done, after 18 months of chipping away at it
That first sip of hot chaga tea in the morning, when the world is all quiet and dark
Organizing my files
Sitting on the porch in the gathering dusk, after a wonderful hot bath
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄
12-26-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Hawk-proofing the chicken run
The hot bath I’ll get to take after work, with lavender and eucalyptus oils
Making roast pork tenderloin with rosemary and cherries for my family, with Boursin-stuffed mushrooms as an appetizer
Stepping outside in the dark for some lungfuls of fresh crisp morning air
Getting the rest I need
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄
12-25-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The scent of a freshly cut grapefruit
Holiday traditions that include family and good food and stories
The healing power of a child’s joy
Tulsi rose tea
How much Nora is delighted by Louie
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄
12-24-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A hug from Moe
Taking kitchen scraps to the compost pile ‘neath a black sky full of stars
Trader Joe’s vanilla lip mask, gift from dear friend Katie
The choices I’ve been making recently
Livable spaces
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄✨🫂
12-23-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Homemade chicken tender wraps with sea salt and lime tortilla chips on the side
A light traffic day
How grounding has been a part of my daily practice for almost thirty years
Maile and Tyler’s chocolate mochi brownies, Andi’s peanut butter cookies
New winter boots keeping my feet warm
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄✨🫂
12-22-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Finally giving the truck windows a thorough cleaning while it was warm enough to do so, with sparklingly clear results
A good dopamine rush after finishing a to-do list item like that
A gathering of the Adamshick and Shield women, eating, talking, remembering mom and her jewelry collection, taking home treasures
How the kitties make my house a home
Taking the concept of cozy to a whole new dimension
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄🫂✨
12-21-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Time with Pam and her reassuring presence
Time with horses and new friends and new perspectives
That place in between grief and grace
A most delicious lentil soup with carrots, tomatoes and lots of good feelings
An unexpected gift card
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄❄️🫂
12-20-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A week filled with wellness appointments and good results
Getting the option to work remotely from Christmas Eve through the day after new year’s, and taking it
That sesame tahini cookie recipe exceeding my expectations, so much so, I made two batches
Being comfortable and smart with frugality
The hummus and chicken plate at Aladdin’s
What are you grateful for today? 🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎄🫂