3-9-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Good old fashioned community networking, meeting new friends, volunteering, planning events
Floors swept and laundry hung by the light of a waning moon
Supporting local businesses
How versatile zucchini is in recipes
Giving my eyes a rest
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨💐
3-8-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How morning walks reset my thought patterns and help me stay rooted in the present moment
Freeing trees of brambles and grape vines, a spring ritual for 27 years now
An epically productive morning yesterday, that included putting a second coat of paint on the upstairs office room, hanging and bringing in laundry, picking up chicken feed and fresh bedding for the coop, taking out the trash and picking up the mail at the P.O. Box
An abundance of apples to eat and share with the deer and the chickens
Buckeye candy for breakfast
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨🐝
3-6-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An early start on a big project
Nina at The Mr Peanut shop downtown, packing up my order of Buckeyes, ranch-roasted peanuts, and dark chocolate salted caramels
Mindfully celebrating the delicious plate of enchiladas in front of me at dinner last night—thanks, Pancho’s Tacos!
Yet another slow walk in the dense morning fog
Getting an unpleasant task out of the way last night so I could enjoy my day offf today
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌏
3-5-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Catching an earlier bus unexpectedly
The sound of the rain and the truck’s windshield wipers
Writing messages in the condensation on the bus stop shelter plexiglass
A local restaurant reopening after an injustice
Leftover mushroom, broccoli, and red onion quiche for breakfast
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌍
3-4-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Voices crying out for peace, justice, mercy
When things go better than I thought they would
A new and larger Buddha Board to use for my book illustrations
The kitties wanting to spend more time outside
Plans to get new wipers for the truck this weekend
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌎🕊️
3-3-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Kitties who are mostly fun, entertaining, and sweet
Finishing another Charley Harper puzzle, this one with birds and butterflies in it
Working on the illustrations for my next book
Shitake mushroom crisps
A skilled driver, backing his flatbed truck all the way down our quarter mile driveway to pick up the mower for it’s spring maintenance tune up
What are are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨🐝
3-2-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The meditative art of spackling and prepping a room for painting
A day filled with time in the studio, time outside, time resting and reflecting
The view from the ridge as we inch closer to spring
A four-day work week
Slimming down, in so many ways
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💐
3-1-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Making chocolate donuts before breakfast
The rewards of self-sufficiency
More downsizing, more cleaning, less stuff and less dust
Picking up seed pods from the Old Man sycamore tree down by the creek
A melty, creamy havarti cheese for my tuna wrap
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🧀
2-28-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The chicken coop, cleaned out, re-fluffed and the girls happily laying eggs in fresh bedding
Dinner and reconnecting with Rob and Elizabeth at Black Dog Tavern
The memories of walking the land in the morning that will forever be a part of me
Chasing the right words for a poem or story
How the sky pulls up the sun
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈☀️
2-27-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Creating new and meaningful rituals
Knowing how to celebrate my achievements
Seeing the sunrise through the bus window on the way to work
Stars
Exhaling across the land at the end of a long day
What are you grateful for today?☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐵
2-25-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Soft snow and silence to greet the day
My friend’s inspiring resilience
Paging through Greencraft magazines for ideas
A warm sweater to comfort me at the chilly downtown office
Sixteen eggs yesterday!
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍳
2-24-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An easier day to settle into
The scent of orange peels simmering in cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg on the stove
A fresh bar of soap
Talking with my sister Janie before bedtime
How slowing things down is time well spent
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨
2-23-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How creativity is unapologetically limitless
Zucchini ravioli with basil, oregano, garlic, mozzarella and Parmesan
Restocking my chaga tea supply
Dabbling in new art forms
The beauty of fresh snowfall
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
2-22-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Being in woods when the snow starts falling thicker and faster, and it’s still so very quiet
A sweet deal on clementines
When the yolks are perfectly runny
Making art with fallen branches and sticks
The promise of a visit with someone you love
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈❄️
2-21-2026
Good morning dear friends-today, I’m grateful for…
A new Charley Harper puzzle that is the essence of spring
Finally getting a car repair done
Staying true to myself and my story
Making stuff that hasn’t existed before
Narrowing down the search for a good mandoline
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨
2-20-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The celery-green skin on a peeling sycamore sapling by the swollen creek
Lightning but no thunder from an unseasonable February storm
The things we give away freely
Rethinking container gardening
The smash burger and Parmesan/black garlic fries from Bickerdyke’s
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍔🍟
2-19-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Knowing to respect the fog while traveling to work
Being in this moment, not that one, or that one
The cuteness of baby skunks stamping their feet in the ground
Making plans for better days
Listening to the still waters that run deep
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍦
2-18-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A new meditation practice to start my day even more intentionally
Remembering how we used to love making quickie pizzas with English muffins when we were hungry after school
Finding out my niece does henna tattoos
Warm air and more birdsong
Knowing what I want, and don’t want
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝