100 Days of Gratitude - Day 84

I am grateful...

1. That somehow I got out of bed even though I was frozen when I woke up. I forced myself to get up and walk through the frigid forest into the bathroom to take a shower. 
2. That I ran through the forest in a towel on the way back to my cabin even though it was cold; I kept a smile on my face and said good morning to each person I came across who was looking at me like a crazy person.
3. For a really yummy breakfast of organic oatmeal and tea that warmed me right up. 
4. For a half day with my guru, Gabby. What a pleasure.
5. For bikini Kundalini. It was hard as hell and my body wanted to shut down, but I survived. 
6. That my guru was so touched by the energy and love we all brought that she cried while saying goodbye to us.
7. For a healing circle that gave me an opportunity to send light to my loved ones.
8. For the best falafels I've ever had.
9. That something I saw in a meditation yesterday actually made sense today when Aliah read my tarot cards.
10. That I am able to spend the day and night with my beautiful and amazing best friend!
11. For my dad, who has given me anything and everything I have ever thought to need from a father. 

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100 Days of Gratitude - Day 65

I am grateful...

1. That today's writing was more fruitful than yesterday's in the 30 days of writing challenge. I feel as though I got somewhere. 
2. That I got some errands done after my morning routine even though I woke up late. 
3. That I did a headstand, even if I could only stay up for a few seconds. Progress!
4. To see my parents after they'd been gone for almost a month. They also very sweetly brought home some presents that were chosen with care.
5. To see SiennaJane and Everett, my lovely niece and nephew. They fill me up with so much love and joy my heart feels as though it may burst!
6. To play a game of tag, and freeze, and ice skating, and hide and seek, and swing with SiennaJane. What fun to run and laugh and see her smile.
7. For a home cooked meal by my mom and the chance to sit around the table with my family.
8. To sit and watch the pink clouds float over the blue sky with Sienna ("blue like my tongue after I eat a lollipop and pink like cotton candy", she told me), listening to hear describe what she saw in the clouds (a reindeer, the number 7).
9. That my family got up and came outside to watch the sunset when Sienna and I asked them to even though they wanted to sit inside. To watch the day turn into night while the kids danced around expending the remains of their energy before bedtime and the silence turned into the calm summer song of crickets and frogs. 
10. To hear Sienna say "I lub you, Jen. I missed you."