“Practice gratitude whenever you feel overwhelmed…. ” Caroline Myss

Well, now, then. Last week, then. The weekend before last… and the one before that. The summer is tumbling by in a blur of obligations, interventions, and work. Indoors time — I’m not used to so much of it. Structured time — I’m not used to so much of that either.  Many changes here.

So, here’s a quick list of things I’m grateful for —

• time to have worked on this piece for just a little while today. and a sense that perhaps it is inching toward resolution.

• a cleaned up house on account of company

• digital images, digital cameras, near-instant gratification of images

• a new journal arriving in the mail for the Sketchbook project

• dinner out, featuring tofu, eggplants and Chinese greens I don’t know the name of

• boys home

• a home

• Dexter

• chocolate

• Catalpa leaves approaching dinner-plate size

• the lake vacation to look forward to

• things growing in my absence

• making a quilt for a wounded child, knowing I am on the other side of most of that