Thursday Inspiration: Gratitude

I thought since it was Thanksgiving here and since we've been exploring gratitude, I'd share this beautiful video today.
I am grateful for you, friend.
I hope it brings you peaceful thoughts.

Here and There: Thankful

image from here

Many years ago I watched an Oprah show when someone was talking about gratitude journals. Write down something you are grateful for every day. What a great idea! I thought, and never started one. Keeping up with anything on a regular basis is not one of my superpowers, but the idea has always stayed with me. I may not write them down often, but I have made a habit of looking for those positive things. I find that there is almost always something good that I can take from a situation, if I look properly. I am writing this on Monday evening and I don't feel too good. I have overdone things recently, including a long day Christmas shopping last week and a wonderful day on Sunday with friends, which I arrived home from tired, shivery, my bones aching and unable to get warm for several hours. This morning I woke up foggy headed, eyes aching, very tired. Even on that kind of day there are things I am thankful for.

I am thankful I have the luxury of not having to go out to work and was able to rest all day today
I am thankful for my lovely fluffy warm dressing gown
I am grateful for central heating
I am thankful for my lovely husband, who put up with the car heating and then the central heating being on full blast for hours in an effort to warm me up
I am thankful for cups of tea
I am thankful for books. Always for books
I am thankful for the internet, the online course where we met and for this space where we share little bits of ourselves and our lives

I wish you, the girls and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving.

blue skies

It rained overnight and I expected it to be grey and overcast this morning. So what a pleasant surprise to see the sun! I love the sunshine, just dislike the heat - so a sunny day at this time of year is ideal for me. There is washing on the line and more in the washing machine. I love to see the washing blowing in the breeze, and it smells so beautifully of the fresh air when I bring it in.

I don't have much to say today. I am not feeling very well. It started about ten days ago and is doing its horrible creepingly worse-every-day thing. So today I am just feeling grateful for the sunshine, and my morning coffee, and trying to keep it a blue sky day despite the grey skies threatening.