Daily: Reflect on at least 5 things for which I'm grateful (Happiness Manifesto #2)

I am grateful friends feel comfortable calling me and DO CALL ME in times of crisis

I am grateful for help in learning my lines

I am grateful for my writing buddies

I am grateful for the art of haiku

I am grateful for warm hugs

I am grateful….

I am grateful rehearsal was much less painful than it might have been. I have a ways to go on my lines but I know I will get there. And I was entertaining even as I didn’t know them. LOL.

I am grateful I finally realized I could print photos from my phone which will now be in the Phonography Art Show at The Empty Space. Yay!

I am grateful for Art Every Day Month – getting some great work done and making some great friends in the process.

I am grateful for my students.

I am grateful for the word and experience of “joy”...

I am grateful for watercolors.

I am grateful.

I am grateful for the time spent with CMore last night. We watched a movie (I started falling asleep) so we went to snuggle and all of a sudden, I was completely awake because I started taking photos. My favorite is included at the end of this list.

I am grateful for rehearsal, and discerning what NOT to do. :-)

I am grateful for Art Every Day

I am grateful for poetry prompts

I am grateful for my camera

I am grateful for perseverance

I am grateful

I have been so busy with my variety of projects, I find myself forgetting to post here as I normally would SO!

I am grateful for the light intellectual banter with CMore.

I am grateful I had the strength to tell Railroad Man “No.”

I am grateful for this morning’s conversation with Katherine.

I am grateful for Art Every Day Month

I am grateful for Mod Podge

I am grateful for Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

I am grateful for my amusement at writing in my sleep

I am grateful for Emma’s creativity

I am grateful I have one more session of Sharpening Your Passionate Pencil

I am grateful for quiet time in conversation with my cast mates

I am grateful for spontaniety.

I am grateful for hugs.

I am grateful.

wrote it earlier, just sat down to put it into the computer

I am grateful for…

Emma’s wildly increased attitude

Trick or treating

Kids enjoyment at the Halloween Fair thing at church

Completion of Burn the Witch. Yahhoooo!!

Conversations at Roger’s party

Time with CMore. Waking up with him was especially… can’t think of a word to describe it.

I am grateful.

I am grateful I got to spend a Friday night with my kids again. No show!

I am grateful I am preparing for Art Everyday Month, getting things collected and in place for the big lift-off tomorrow.

I am grateful I have all the pieces of my costume together…. first time I have had a costume or gone to a party in I don’t know how long.

I am grateful for paint.

I am grateful for goals that pull me forward.

I am grateful I ask questions and get answers I don’t want to hear because hey, that helps me grow. Better to grown and have some stinging underneath my skin than to walk around in nagging denial and stagnation.

I am grateful I will perform today in Burn the Witch. It feels like such a journey from the first one in 2006 until today. Wow.

The photo is me at Burn the Witch, working the door two weeks ago. I can’t work it today because I am performing. Which makes me a bit sad, but I have to get to trick or treating and all… so much to do!

I am grateful for the Great Pumpkin, who left a mystery jack-o-lantern on our front porch.

I am grateful for the time with CMore last night, watching “About Schmidt” and allowing him to feed me, cuddle with me, talk with me after the movie, rest in trusting comfort. Perfect. How long have we known each other?

I am grateful for the time at Banducci’s Pumpkin patch. We had a great time and I got some great photos of the event. I love that.

I am grateful Emma and I both chose some great pumpkins.

I am grateful for Passion Activator Friday, although with Sam’s school event, the day will be broken up so the momentum from last week will unlikely be replicated.

Emma took this photo of me. My children are into taking photos of me, lately, which is sort of fun.

I am grateful for….

My goals… looking at what to pull out for November to inspire me through the month. Some of it is taking form without me doing anything (love when that happens!)

My downloading and uploading photos onto my Flickr account yesterday. I still had shots on Barbara’s camera which I borrowed when I visited with Mom in Dana Point/San Juan Capistrano. (Naturally I captured her first moments drinking Starbucks coffee)

I am grateful for Enrichment at Valley Oaks. Emma enjoyed herself and may actually make some new buddies out of the deal. YAY!

I am grateful for the time with CMore last night. I brought my first item over to his house to keep there. Serious, seems serious to do that!

I am grateful my lapses into inferiority thinking are (usually) short lived. Crossing fingers, intending detachedly LOL

I am grateful for multiple ways to stay warm even though it so rather chilly this morning.

I am grateful.

Today I am grateful Emma is starting in Choir for the Charter School which is our Homeschooling Home. Finally, Finally, Finally!

Today I am grateful Hank and I went on a walk yesterday. Finally, Finally, Finally – up to the bluffs again.

Today I am grateful for my herbal heating thingee which I am wearing around my neck, partially to keep warm!

Today I am grateful for my vast collections of writing – today I am turning to an 8 (or maybe even 10!) year old essay to become born anew. Lovely!

Today I am grateful rehearsal continues to be ridiculous. There is a strange joy in making a person who rarely laughs to laugh hysterically. It is all such good fun!

Today, I am grateful.