grateful for…

• coolness with sunshine
• Lorna Doone shortbread biscuits
• morning talk with my husband before he’s off to work
• orange-y shampoo from my sister
• podcast on tea, learning the herbal tea isn’t really tea, it’s a herbal infusion
• pen & ink drawings,  how-to videos on youtube
• Nancy Willard’s Anatole series
• watermarked paper
• finished book about journaling as a way of life
• pumpernickel bread (and the word, pumpernickel, so lovely)
• little boy’s imagination about “dragon poison”, a old bottle with some sort of concoction in it
• little daughter who kissed a package of butter, I understand, dear, I do!
• baby who holds his feet together in a praying pose
• poem by Robert Siegel, “A Pentecost of Finches”
• commonplacing some thoughtful lines from a new favorite magazine, Common Place Quarterly
• boiling corn on the cob with a daughter
• gingerbread cake
• trying new recipe of fish tacos and the family loving them
• Loreena McKennitt
• a pool of ideas for our learning year coming together
• my trusty apron, so faithful, new bit of fabric for another
• starry skies during early morn nursing moments

What are you grateful for today?

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