sunshine on my keyboard gratitude

i am grateful for:

1) lunch on the balcony

2) the very full moon

3) flowers from my sweetie

4) a fridge full of fresh food

5) the ocean, which is calling my toes. we’re coooming!

6) the desserts at pure food and wine. especially that insane chocolatey thing

7) my health. i interviewed judith orloff the other day and she said everyone every day should say, “thank you for my health.” thank you for my health. i have a feeling it’s good to say even if, especially if, said health is challenged.

8) the birds i can hear over the traffic

9) sunglasses. i’m not sure what the fair-eyed people who don’t have them do, really, or how the fair-eyed people fared before they existed. i’d be making visors from leaves and coconuts. because of course my past lives have all been fairly tropical.

10) rediscovering young adult fiction. really digging meg cabot’s “mediator” series, about a high school girl who sees stuck ghosts and helps them go on to their next phase. there’s a metaphor in there. certainly has me thinking about death, but in a fun way. like who i’ve been in lives before, who i’ve known. i even started scrolling through my cell phone contact list to read names and decide split-second who i’ve known before and who is newer. i think about the person’s eyes. some people i see walking down the street sometimes even–man, woman, dog–and it’s like, boom, hey you again. and gone. i love that. makes me feel so connected to myself, to god, to good beings. like it’s all ok because we know. underneath it all, we all know the big open secret: i know you. holla.

11) capri-length leggings under tunics. i don’t know why but this is the perfect summer combo for me–not too warm, yet protected. girly yet not over-exposed.

12) cucumber water

13) homemade iced tea

14) laughing so hard i cry

15) clean floors