What are you grateful for today?

[unpredictablebijou]

We have daily mood threads, and what pissed you off and what made you smile. How about a gratitude thread?

Today I'm grateful for this nice warm building made of thick stone, because it holds in the heat quite deliciously, against the single-digit temperatures outside.

I'm grateful for last-minute present shopping, because I can really relieve people's stress when they come in here.

I'm grateful for the fact that I don't have to interact with my WHOLE family all at once this holiday season, but rather get them in nice manageable pieces.

I'm grateful for Lit, since it's a world that's almost weird enough for me to feel at home.

Walking in gratitude is an excellent practice, and will create subtle shifts in the way we approach the world. So let's have it. Find some gratitude, and offer it here.

bj

 

[champagne1982]

I'm grateful that the insurance company's cheque cleared. It has been a battle and will continue to be so, but at least the baby's taking steps in the right direction.

I'm grateful that the kitchen smells so fantastic over the holidays.

If my gratitude could be measured in the fact that I don't have to stand in line for a shelter bed or my dinner, I'm thinking you'd have to fill up a train with it.

Even though the temperature has been hovering and is expected to continue in the same range between 35 and 25 below this week, at least it's not raining and I'm thankful for that.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Waking up this morning

 

[unpredictablebijou]

1. lovely snow
2. everyone I love is safe, healthy and basically happy
3. my wonderful dogs
4. darkened country roads
5. crush energy
6. My great penguin-beast of Aquarian mayhem
7. the immense geographical distance between myself and my biological family
8. Leonard Cohen
9. smart people

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I'm Aquarian mayhem in one condensed ball

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I'm Aquarian mayhem in one condensed ball

For which we are immensely grateful, of course.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I have discovered a new game online which gives me untold stress and a stiff painful neck .........I must be mad (but then you knew that)

 

[Tzara]

I'm Aquarian mayhem in one condensed ball

I'm antiquarian mayhem in two (wizened) balls.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

lol naughty boy

 

[PandoraGlitters]

my grandmother and stepmother
the cat that keeps my feet warm
some very kind online and meat space friends
indoor plumbing
deliciously scented home-made soaps
getting the heck out of the year of the rat

 

[unpredictablebijou]

New Year's Eve.

New Year's Day.

Tonight.

Tomorrow.

Next week.

Inauguration Day.

and rope.

bj

 

[UnderYourSpell]

The normality of relatively abnormal people

 

[Sara Crewe]

Freezing rain and the threat of lawsuits.


( I had a snow day)

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Things made of plastic.

 

[CharleyH]

I am grateful, not for me, but for all who struggle for life right now.