Grateful — December 28, 2024

I’ve been radio silent on this blog for a while and every time I post I think this is the start of when I might start posting on a regular basis. The truth is, I write every day, sometimes on Facebook but without fail in my journal software. I’m interested in being a blogger, but I’ve felt like I had to guard my words and thoughts for a while now and a lot of what I wanted to write about just really wasn’t appropriate to write about in public mostly because it would re-traumatize myself.

Anyway, I’ve been doing gratitude lists daily for over a year now and they’ve included 50 things on them since February or so of this year. For much of the month of December, I posted my daily gratitude lists on Facebook for my friends to read. But likely, they are tired of that daily oversharing, and I do have this space that is all mine. So, here is today’s gratitude list. I doubt this will be a daily post. But, it makes me feel good to post it here today.

1. I am grateful for Jared.
2. I am grateful for my marriage to Jared.
3. I am grateful I can get on with a routine and not worry about exactly staying awake as long as Jared does.
4. I am grateful for my education.
5. I am grateful for mornings.
6. I am grateful for foggy mornings.
7. I am grateful for AGI, brie or goat cheese, sunflower seeds, a protein bar, and decaf coffee + collagen for breakfast.
8. I am grateful for the way photography re-trains my brain to see the beauty in the world.
9. I am grateful my children are healthy.
10. I am grateful for peace and quiet.
11. I am grateful for Mow, Nancy, Bess, Abby, and Trixie.
12. I am grateful for my family.
13. I am grateful for Jared’s family.
14. i am grateful for my memories.
15. I am grateful for my education, both inside and outside the classroom.
16. I am grateful for music.
17. I am grateful for art.
18. I am grateful I know how to read.
19. I am grateful I like to read.
20. I am grateful for healthy changes in perspective.
21. I am grateful for forgiveness.
22. I am grateful for time to think.
23. I am grateful for Steve Ross yoga.
24. I am grateful for good friends.
25. I am grateful for my church.
26. I am grateful for all the churches I’ve attended in my life.
27. I am grateful for my work history.
28. I am grateful for comfortable shoes.
29. I am grateful a simple Christmas 2024.
30. I am grateful for good teachers and mentors.
31. I am grateful to know a lot of talented artists.
32. I am grateful to know how to cut my own hair myself.
33. I am grateful to know how to do simple trims my family’s hair when they want me to.
34. I am grateful my family is not hungry.
35. I am grateful to be volunteering somewhere again.
36. I am grateful to have discovered chickpea pasta.
37. I am grateful to be both a cat and a dog person.
38. I am grateful to have a blog.
39. I am grateful for the years I spent tinkering with WordPress theme designs. It meant that when I bought a theme I liked, I could tweak it to be just so like I wanted.
40. I am grateful to know how to play the piano.
41. I am grateful to have a real piano in the house again.
42. I am grateful that 2024 has been a year of growth.
43. I am grateful to be less afraid of the world these days.
44. i am grateful I’ve finally had the patience to let my hair grow.
45. I am grateful it doesn’t matter if my hair ever thins because I do actually like how I look bald.
46. I am grateful for modern medicine.
47. I am grateful for modern psychiatric medicine.
48. I am grateful to know at least some history.
49. I am grateful to appreciate history.
50. I am grateful I like to learn.
    
    Happy Holidays, Everyone.