gratitude wednesday 8/13 2008-08-13 10:23:47 I’m grateful to be up and in life. I must admit I’m having a challenging time these days. And this being perceived as old is really starting to bug me. Some young guy offering me his seat on BART. A young sober woman asking me, over coffee, if I still worked. I don’t get it. [...] Read more:gratitude
gratituesday 8/12 2008-08-12 09:58:37 Tuesday morning. Gray. Cool. Time to summon the gratitudes. My card this morning is the Devil.
I’m feeling Devilish; feeling bound to my shadow side. I know I tend to depression and loneliness; as I was saying in an email to Kismet this morning, I’m hoping that the dark side is magnified for me these days [...]
gratitude monday 8/11 2008-08-11 11:40:07 I’m grateful. Yes I am.
I’m still in the caffeine withdrawal and it’s pretty bleak sometimes. Like when I don’t have something to *do!*
Quiet time has been kicking my ass.
I declare that peaceful loving time with myself will return without the stimulation of gallons of oolong.
I declare it! And may it be soon. May this lethargy/depression [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude friday 8/8 2008-08-08 10:40:08 This is the Chinese *luckiest day.* According to my googlemancy, the Mandarin word for *eight* sounds like part of the expression *prosper, or get rich.* It also means *unity.* Visually, the numerical symbol is perfectly symmetrical—it can be sliced in half horizontally or vertically, with each half mirroring the other. And today is a triple [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude thursday 8/7 2008-08-07 10:34:20 I am grateful. Tarot classes began again last night—studying the major arcana. Fewer people this time; we could all fit around the table! And Rowan is attending this time. How wonderful. I had Rabbit on my left and Rowan on my right; heavenly.
Now we’re doing a daily card reading from the majors. My card today [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude wednesday 8/6 2008-08-06 09:35:46 It’s early morning. After a mysterious night, with my sleep disturbed by what sounded like cannon fire or I don’t know what deep in the middle of the night. Five or six big booms. That followed coming home around 10ish finding a woman sitting on the ground leaning up against my driveway gate. Of course [...] Read more:gratitude
gratituesday 8/5 2008-08-05 11:08:59 Grateful woman speaks. I am a grateful woman.
I am blessed in this life. On this day.
I have passions that light me up.
Hula. Oh my gosh it was so good to go back to hula last night. We are learning a new hula auana (modern hula, with melody and instruments as opposed to hula kahiko, which [...]
gratitude monday 8/4 2008-08-04 10:17:54 Late summer is here. I’m loving the weather. Cool mornings. Sunny afternoons. Cool (cold!) nights. Cool enough to wear a jacket around the house and snuggle up in a throw on the couch.
Sigh. On the couch. That would be me. The caffeine-withdrawal lethargy seems to be lasting longer than the headache. And for that part [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude sunday 8/3 2008-08-03 02:24:57 Just after midnight Sunday. I haven’t posted in a few days. Sorry. Lots going on. Mostly of the detox headache and exhaustion variety.
Day seven of my caffeine-free life will begin when I get up later this morning.
Wow.
I still have a headache. And lethargy. And a dose of general not feeling so great about myself.
Ritual tonight. [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude friday 9/5 2008-09-05 09:56:18 Gathering the Goddess starts today. I was going to link to the festival site; it seems to be gone now. Oh well.
Almost packed. Next a shower and food.
Am traveling with Rowan and Luxor. And I will be using my witch-name, Raven, all weekend; see how it feels.
I am grateful for friends. For adventures like this. [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude thursday 9/4 2008-09-04 09:57:06 This is the gratitude
list I dream of writing and self-censor.
Gratitude. Right. Sure. No worries; easy. Right at my fingertips. Just let me part the curtains, the leaden curtains of self-hatred, resignation and bitterness. Easy, no problem. Just let me drag them [ugh, this is hard!] out of the way.
Okay, now I can find the [...]
gratitude wednesday 9/3 2008-09-03 10:20:21 Gratitude? Okay. Gratitude.
I’m grateful I have computers that are driving me crazy. I’m grateful that I can afford all this technology and that I know it’s only a machine and if I can’t make it/them work the way I want, I can find a workaround.
I’m grateful for money to throw at problems when I need/choose [...] Read more:gratitude
gratituesday 9/2 2008-09-02 10:22:54 September? Wow.
A long weekend; forgot to post yesterday. Just lifted my eyes from a period of time of doing research for my trip to Hawai’i. Fun! Found Kalani Oceanside Retreat in Pahoa and Dragonfly Ranch Healing Arts Center in West Hawai’i near Honaunau Bay. Also the Butterfly Inn in Kurtistown is still a candidate. Fun [...]
gratitude friday 8/29 2008-08-29 13:07:01 I’m grateful that I have three witch-sters coming with me to see my daughter tomorrow. I’m grateful that I have love and support in my life.
I’m grateful my sister Marcia is returning to health.
I’m grateful my dad is doing so well.
I’m grateful my daughter is going back to school.
I’m grateful that I’m not sinking into [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude thursday 8/28 2008-08-28 09:51:22 I am grateful this morning. For a restful night. For hope and intention. For a return to good health. For ease ease ease in my body. For the banishment of pain.
I am grateful for my friends. For my art project coming along so well. For the awesome art projects I saw last night at class.
For [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude wednesday 8/27 2008-08-27 12:31:06 I am a grateful woman. I am blessed with creativity and a love for beauty that I can see, hear, smell and taste.
I am grateful that my dream this morning was only a dream. In this dream, I was getting loaded in my hula class, popping pain pills (like I used to). So loaded that [...] Read more:gratitude
gratituesday 8/26 2008-08-26 11:02:01 Kim’s sobriety anniversary 11 years. Woohoo! I am so glad this woman is in my life. Grateful grateful grateful.
One more picture of the bay from my walk Sunday. I am into photos these days.
I have nearly completed the Wheel of the Year project I am making, based on the one Shekhinah Mountainwater has in her [...]
gratitude monday 8/25 2008-08-25 13:45:54 It’s Monday and I speak my gratitude
.
I am grateful for my sisters in the craft; for our time together—twelve hours—Saturday, bonding and doing our work.
I still feel the powerful effects, kinda like coming down off a big acid trip. (Yes I remember what that’s like.)
So much happened. Including my meltdown at the end when I [...]
gratitude friday 8/22 2008-08-22 10:32:11 It’s Friday morning and I have a morning of taking-care-of-me scheduled. The upside of business being slow.
It still hurts that I didn’t get the gig I went after to do employee coaching. I’m grateful that I’m not panicking about contracts not obtained.
I am most grateful, most most grateful, for hula. New dance, more complicated than [...] Read more:gratitude
gratituesday 9/23 2008-09-23 10:20:52 Yum, I’m starting to enjoy swimming. At least when it’s warm. Weather warmed up again yesterday and I got right into the pool. So did many others; it was crowded. Felt great.
I’m grateful that things are busier. Make the busy-ness create new business. I am grateful to stand tall in intention and call prosperity.
I am [...]
gratitude monday 9/22 2008-09-22 10:23:31 It’s the equinox today. The center of the harvest season. Dried corn and apples and grapes on the altar. I’m grateful for the circle of women last night—the ritual was wonderful.
I’m grateful for a wonderful day, active in all the communities that make up the best of my life these days. Lindy in the Park. [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude friday 9/19 2008-09-19 10:36:07 I am so grateful today. Even though things are challenging and buggy, I am so grateful.
Couldn’t reach Kat by Skype phone this morning. This on top of ridiculous problems with Skype that I don’t seem to be able to fix. Sheesh. So I emailed her and told the truth about how out of sorts I’ve [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude thursday 9/18 2008-09-18 10:20:23 I’m grateful.
It could be worse.
Whatever it is that’s driving me batshit; it could be worse.
And for that I’m grateful.
Thoughts/ideas like this help me stay focused especially when things are looking dark:
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” — James M. Barrie
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude
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gratitude wednesday 9/17 2008-09-17 10:08:46 Wednesday morning. Cold. Gray. The equinox—Mabon—is around the corner. This year it’s the 22nd. Balance of light and dark. As the light continues to fade. As the darkness comes in. The second of the three harvests. The dying of the light.
This time of year used to frighten and depress me. Now I take it much [...] Read more:gratitude
gratituesday 9/16 2008-09-16 09:51:45 It’s 7:30 in the morning and I’m grateful.
The eye infection is clearing up. My eye feels so much better.
I got a good night’s sleep.
I’m grateful for bills paid and money with which to pay them.
I’m grateful to have gotten into the pool again yesterday.
I’m grateful for lunch with my sister and our desultory conversation. So [...]
gratitude monday 9/15 2008-09-15 11:43:04 The moon is full in Pisces today. A good day to practice lovingkindness and exquisite self care. Then again, aren’t all days good for those two practices? Just sayin’, though, that the moon in Pisces is a really good time to be aware of the suffering of others and to take personal responsibility. And to [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude friday 9/12 2008-09-12 11:04:53 Yesterday was 9/11. A day that takes me back to 2001. I was deeply moved by what happened on that day to my New York, to my World Trade Center. Even as an ex–New Yorker, or maybe especially as an ex–New Yorker, this was an incredibly difficult, nearly unendurable event.
I didn’t get to visit the [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude wednesday 9/10 2008-09-10 10:53:17 I’m humbled and grateful and struck nearly mute by the changes of the last few days. The Gathering was more than I have yet been able to assimilate. And then I come home to the experience of my dear Kim’s husband’s death. Jeff was my age and had been living with failed kidneys for a [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude monday 9/8 2008-09-08 22:31:23 Late for me to be posting. I’m tired and still buzzing from the powerful big transformational weekend at the Gathering the Goddess festival. Women, dianic goddess women, priestesses, 125 women ritualing around the fire in the redwoods. Dancing drumming speaking intentions. Lots of love and lots of power. And lots of joy and tears.
I’m grateful [...] Read more:gratitude
gratitude friday 10/10 2008-10-10 10:25:08 Autumn chill is in the air. Fleece jacket in the morning. A little cooler every day. I’m grateful for toasty warm clothes and layers of blankets on my bed.
I’m grateful for morning gratitude
lists.
I’m grateful for feeling better.
I’m grateful for car insurance.
I’m grateful to have asked and now I know—my rates won’t go up after [...]
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