Gratitude Practice 2020 Day 270: Sunday Night Reflection
Tonight, as I lay in my bed snuggled warm with blankets and listening to the faint steady hum of our dryer located down the hall steadily churning the last load of weekend laundry, a zillion thoughts race through my head.
Grateful for a weekend that was a perfect blend of productivity and play.
Grateful for freshly chopped veggies dipped in thick creamy ranch dressing and the life giving power of chocolate chip cookies.
Grateful to have swapped out the large October wall calendar that hangs in our family command center indicating that we have once again survived another month of focused and determined stretching. Success for sure!
Grateful for the paired down simplified yet lazer sharp perspective that I now treasure...you know the one...a sacred collective of new perspectives...new clarity...new mental clearness and convictions…perspective only born from steady relentless adversity… hard won perspective that have been continually challenged, rearranged, unpacked, reassembled and refined inside an unpredictable and unprecedented year of growth.
Grateful that each corner of our property is slowly beginning to be full of colorful crunchy fallen leaves and that jackets and sweaters are now required staples.
Grateful for work...for security...for my team and colleagues...for the intentionally planned busy-ness of the next five days ...the projects, the zooms, the interviews, the task that will fill up at least forty full hours of brain power.
Grateful for Sarah Kate's constant request for me to read her books, stories and any printed words she can find...it appears we have a big time reader on our hands and I could not be happier.
Grateful for good music…for good warm socks...and for the unique collection of good good people in my neighborhood.
Grateful to be reminded that we always have a choice...an opportunity to decide how we want to respond...how we want to show up...how we want to engage…respond...we always have a choice...
Grateful for the people who are easy to love AND for those who are not so easy to love and for what this dynamic is teaching me.
Grateful for bright powerful nourishing November 1st sunshine that deliberately flooded my happy place this afternoon and reminded me that ALL things are doable, that there is goodness and value in ALL people, that ALL people are hard to hate close up, and that light and love cannot be stopped unless I choose to stop trying.
Grateful for the woman I see reflected in the mirror...for that in me which is head strong, for the hard and hard parts and for that which is truly happy and humble and holy. For that in me which is still rough and rage-y and for that which is being refined and reformed. For the mistakes and missteps and for the magic and mighty. For the creativity, for the courage and for the confusion. I like her...I actually love her...I love all of her...and that is no small thing.
Grateful for the ability to change, to evolve, to improve, to transform...and for endless opportunities...and specifically for the opportunities that this upcoming week will inevitably provide us to practice loving and learning and leaning into a better version of me and of us.
Grateful for this song that will be on repeat...for it's meaning that truly transcends memberships or party or affiliation or organizations. Grateful for THIS song...THIS message and meaning...especially for THIS week...and for always...
