Saturday
Mar192011
five (really) good things . in this moment
1. finding two vintage suitcases at the rummage sale today. oh my goodness they make me happy. one will house a new creative project that i will be sharing at retreats and workshops (starting with your story in june). the other will just make me smile every day with its happy flower goodness.
2. the sun was shining down upon my head just a few moments ago.
3. creating a few new designs to add to the shop in the next few days. finding inspiration from a dish of jelly beans.
4. opening my eyes to see how my friends nurture me in so many (often unexpected) ways.
5. tucking this truth inside my heart: i choose to find the beauty and my life is full and lighter because of it.
and you? tell me five really good things from your world. (dare you.)
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The light lasting longer and longer.
Getting the thing I've wanted most for a very long time (more to share on that very soon.)
Watching my boys play in water at the sink: their torsos bare and their hair tousled.
Feeling like I'm finally surrounded by a creative community.
Realizing how doing what I love is the only thing and the right thing always.
1. Spending the last hour doing important technical work for my next creative project.
2. Having so many amazing people in my life because in November and February I took a chance and stepped out of my comfort zone.
3. Sitting in a my lovely bedroom across from the most amazing man I could ever dream of having in my life.
4. Coming into a space of acceptance of who I am and the changes I have made to be more authentically me.
5. Trusting the words of my teachers!
Five really good things, indeed - so happy for you!!! Me? hmmm....
1. Printing up postcards with my book cover on the front, and the description and website on the back, and leaving them at Starbucks, and a quaint, little bookstore's bulletin board. (I also slipped some of them inside books for whomever may purchase them ;-)
2. Finishing a new pastel painting
3. Putting the finishing touches on a Nursery Rhyme book
4. Taking some time to find my inner peace, and accept that my creative business is not failing, that I merely need to step up getting out of my comfort zone and promoting it and myself, not just online, but locally. (Something I'm really not good at.)
5. Reaching a point in my new book, where the characters within trust me enough to open up and tell me everything they've been afraid to before.
Thank you so much for asking!!
:-D
(((hugs)))
1. Being able to give back, even if in what feels like a small way to someone who gave me so very much.
2. Having someone I barely know and only met a week ago in passing email this week to offer me a very expensive piece of medical equipment I need for FREE. It arrives Monday. (Now I just have to summon up the grace to USE it.)
3. Friends who ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS have my back. (and the comfort in knowing this.)
4. Indy who gives me a fully body wiggle and tons of love the second I return to him.
5. My 40th birthday is on Tuesday.
6. (a bonus one!) I renewed my driver's licence today and I am 65 lbs. lighter than the last time I did so. The photo will (hopefully) look like me now!
1. Having a full time job when so many people are still out of work.
2. Having my photography as my creative outlet - Always looking for new subjects and different ways of expressing myself!
3. Have a wonderful man as my hubby ... The Love of My Life!
4. Having old fashioned parents that have values and truths - Would not want them any other way.
5. Spring is getting my creative juices flowing again - So Happy about that ...
1. Having my husband home for a few weeks. We have barely had time together the past few months.
2. Knowing I get to meet you in person this year in October. :)
3. Working quietly on a new project coming soon. Not ready to reveal just yet.
4. Raising $230 so far for Japan Relief by selling prints through my Etsy shop.
5. Knowing that Spring really is coming - and soon!
Love those suitcases!
My five good things:
1. I was brave enough to play with my camera while sitting at a bar last night, and I got a good shot.
2. Found some pretty vintage material which is perfect for my current project.
3. Garlic.
4. The extended tumbling feature on my dryer. (I'm ignoring its buzzer right now so that I can type instead....)
5. Shivering in the wind, but knowing that it is springtime, no matter what.
1. I love your blog ~ filled with love and challenges and inspiration. It's one of the few I check daily.
2. My husband putting the lawn furniture out on the patio today. Spring is here!
3. My 11 year old, outside laughing with a friend. Nothing beats a child's joy in laughing.
4. I went to a flea market yesterday and garnered many beautifully vintage things myself!
5. Learning to live and live with happiness, daily. :-)
Thanks for the chance to pause and be grateful!
1. Snowdrops are blooming, snow is retreating.
2. I started running today after a year off (thanks to my friend who inspired me and gave me the time to do it by offering to watch both my kids)
3. "Conversations" with my 3 months old who is smiley and giggly and chatty suddenly.
4. Pork and apple pie in the oven soon to come out for dinner.
5. It's still light out!
1. long skype convos with my dearies who are far away, feeling so close
2. new ideas and fun coming soon
3. an interview that was so fun and easy.
4. my zenamoon candles that keep me company
5. twinkle lites on my mantle
1. My dog Molly waking me this morning by sneezing several times in my ear to say "get up!"
2. My honey's fever broke and he's feeling better!
3. There are blossoms on the cherry trees - spring is really here!
4. I'm going to get all my beads out today and just play with them and maybe even make a pair of earrings (haven't done this in a very long time)!!
5. Feeling more and more every day that "I am enough!" What an amazing concept!
6. (Sorry!) I have lots of work to do today and instead of complaining about it, I'm feeling grateful that I have this job and that I can do it at home!
my five good things right now at this second?
1. coming here and finding you posting about your 5 good things (always makes me happy)
2. toast with butter and brown sugar
3. making extra time in the morning to do some yoga and some writing (and feeling so much calmer throughout the day because of it
4. hanging out with my 15 year old last night laughing at stuff we found on the internet
5. iron and wine
xo
1. Having the courage to write and write some more without rules or judgments!
2. A warm conversation with a forever friend.
3. Having everyrthing I need and more in this present moment
4. A light schedule this afternoon, which allows me to get extra rest
5. Experiencing the freedom to be me, exactly as I am in this moment (full of emotions and contradictions)