today i am grateful for

these things:

• each of you.  i love that you come here.  thank you for that.
• how 30 days of gratitude...recognizing the true abundance of life...can make a girl's heart swell and glow.
• for the opportunity to stand still and solid with the atlantic and sort some things out (photo of me by the lovely jenica mckenzie).
• for those times when i get restless (like today) to change, to do something different, to move faster toward potential and fullness and wholehearted living.

thank you for sharing gratitude with me. 

today i am grateful for

being different.

so there's this big green pasture that i drive by from time to time.  it's dotted with a hundred lovely white cows.  and one brown donkey.

the donkey makes me smile every time.  he's totally just getting his donkey groove on in the midst of cattleville.  this weekend, i decided to stop and take some photos.  the cows were uncertain and ran in the opposite direction, making sure to keep a safe distance.  the donkey confidently trotted right up and looked me in the eye with a happy greeting.

it's funny to write that i recognized a kindred spirit in the donkey.  but there you go.

today i am grateful for

starry night skies, three stinky-face dogs, turkey with mayo on a leftover squishy roll, mittens, the gifts of imperfection and finding my wish ticket from squam in my coat pocket.

today i am grateful for

all the times i got it backwards, colored outside its lines and generally fucked it up.

because of that, i can love more honestly, openly and fully with my whole wild heart.

“love is the ultimate outlaw. it just won't adhere to any rules. the most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. that would mean that security is out of the question. the words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. my love for you has no strings attached. i love you for free.”

-tom robbins

today i am grateful for

having enough to eat and not having to think about where my next meal is coming from. 

today i am grateful for

the simple things.

happy {official} gratitude day, friends.