1/28/05

Today I am grateful for:

• Yo-Yo Ma's cello playing
• The sun streaming through my frosted window
• The heat that warms my room, the place I work and the car I drive
• The blue sky
• The connection I have to the universe that, if I listen, sometimes sends me wise and joyful questions and statements
• My special talent for forgiveness (is this egotistical to say?)

1/23/05

Today I am grateful for:

• A hot bath with bath salt (I found cleaning a cupboard) with deep water (I figured out how to block the overflow drain--the miracle called masking tape)
• My ability to cook and a friend willing to eat my creations
• Yoga and me for doing it and the great feeling I had afterwards
• My back and that it has healed enough that I could shovel snow
• My sister, she is my precious treasure

1/22/05

Today I am grateful for:

• Snow falling
• Warm house
• Tasty food
• Mulled wine
• Yoga DVD
  
• Good friends
• Good night
  

1/19/05

Today I am grateful for:

• C.'s cat sleeping with me all night
• The sunrise this morning
• The good graduate student rotating in my lab
  
• The snow storm which gives me an excuse to rest tonight
• My friends who worry about me and take care of me
• B. giving me a gift today and that it was chocolate
• My peaceful room
  

1/17/05

Today I am grateful for:

• All the people who have given of themselves to increase the amount of justice in the world
• Furry kitty friends who sleep on my bed
• My competence at home tasks like cooking (Greek salad today) and home maintenance (insulated windows today)
• A warm home to live in
• Friends who visit from afar
• My husband and his warm smile
  

1/15/05

I have been feeling everything but grateful for the last few hours so this is a challenge.

I am grateful for:

• my computer
• people in my life to whom I can be grumpy and sullen and they will understand
• the small seed of faith I have that keeps me from completely giving myself over to depression and gloom

1/13/05

Today I am grateful for:

• My CSM friends. What a wonderful group of women I have stumbled into. They are truly a gift.
• Hope.
• Openness and love.
• The fact that things change and the possibility of change. Change can seem frightening but without change, there is nothing, no hope, no openness, no joy. Things absolutely cannot remain the same and when I can go with this and let it happen it can be wonderful and often is.
  

1/12/05

Today I am grateful for:

• My friend C. and our long discussions
• My iPod and JBL speaker system (both presents from my husband)
• My husband
• My zest for life
• The Star Trek universe and all whose work and imagination created it
• My coworkers and their warm interactions with me

1/11/05

Today I am/was grateful for

• my drive to work for it allows such contemplation
• the beautiful trees, their branches so stark and complicated against the wintry sky
• birds flying in together in groups
• music - Jane Siberry
• the scents of mandarin orange peel and lime in my aromatherapy lamp
• miso soup
• chocolate
• my senses that allow me to appreciate all of this
  

1/10/05

I am grateful for:
-my gym membership and my willpower to go there
-William Blake
-boxes by the side of the door, yes, its our new tarot cards!
-C. for just being herself
-my sister
-candles
-the star filled sky

New Year and resolutions

My favorite New Year resolution is to be more postive. I am dusting off this gratitude journal to try to live up to that and to join with some friends at Childless Stepmoms in writing gratitude lists.

I am grateful for me, for my sense, my thoughts, my fascinating and fascinated mind.
I am grateful for my friend C. and our time together, the way she listens to me and appreciates me.
I am grateful for D.
I am grateful for the 2 cats in my life, my cat Masha and C.'s cat Paco.
I am grateful for my car and the freedom it has given me.
I am grateful for libraries.
I am grateful for warmth.
I am grateful that I can see and hear the beauty around me.