Gratitude and Joy: Day 17
I am grateful for:
Online Acquaintances Who Have Their Shit Together
Like so many of us, I have far more online "friends" than I do friends I ever actually see face to face. Most of the people I know only online (or now only know online) are just sort of there. But a handful of them are literally giving me life right now. These are regular women (they're all women), not celebrities or people otherwise in the public eye, who seem to be living their best lives--not just presenting the best versions of their lives to the world of social media, but actually living their best lives. The love these women have for their children and for their spouses, their dedication to helping make the world a better place through raising their kids right and putting their bodies where their values are for volunteer work, and their honesty and vulnerability in sharing when things go wrong as well as when they go right shine through each and every day. These are women I only "know"--we don't get together for lunch, we can't help each other out by running errands for one another when the going gets tough, we don't do any of the things "traditional" friends or even acquaintances do by dint of being in physical proximity to one another, but these women enrich my life immeasurably just by being their kind, awesome selves, and I'm so grateful that I get to glimpse them through my computer screen.
I feel joy using:
Green Ink
I don't remember now when I first started using green ink for everything I thought I could get away with not using blue or black for. (I still sign checks in blue. *sigh*) But I love my green ink. It's just such a happy and somehow still sort of dignified ink color. I still write a lot by hand (lists!), and it brings me joy to do that in a color I like.
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Sunday, December 17, 2017
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Gratitude and Joy: Kind Cashiers and The Hallelujah Chorus
Gratitude and Joy: Day 10
I am grateful for:
Kind Cashiers
The other day I picked up a few gift cards at the grocery store when I did my week's shopping. For whatever reason--maybe the cashier passed them to the bagger and he missed them or maybe she set them aside thinking I would put them in my purse and *I* missed them--I walked away without them. And then she noticed I didn't have them and chased me down to make sure I didn't walk way without the single most expensive thing I bought that day. Sometimes the little things are actually the big things, and I'm so grateful this woman saved me the inconvenience and expense of losing those gift cards.
I feel joy listening to:
"The Hallelujah Chorus"
They performed "The Hallelujah Chorus" as the encore at the Holiday Pops concert Friday night. Dang but I love "The Hallelujah Chorus." It is so majestic, so joyful, so so. It's one of those pieces that gives me that swelling emotion feeling that gets stuck in your throat. Also, when people actually know to stand up? Because tradition? It makes me feel connected to something bigger, just like the music does. If I had to describe joy, I don't think I could do better than to point to the feeling I get during those high, high notes in "The Hallelujah Chorus."
I am grateful for:
Kind Cashiers
The other day I picked up a few gift cards at the grocery store when I did my week's shopping. For whatever reason--maybe the cashier passed them to the bagger and he missed them or maybe she set them aside thinking I would put them in my purse and *I* missed them--I walked away without them. And then she noticed I didn't have them and chased me down to make sure I didn't walk way without the single most expensive thing I bought that day. Sometimes the little things are actually the big things, and I'm so grateful this woman saved me the inconvenience and expense of losing those gift cards.
I feel joy listening to:
"The Hallelujah Chorus"
They performed "The Hallelujah Chorus" as the encore at the Holiday Pops concert Friday night. Dang but I love "The Hallelujah Chorus." It is so majestic, so joyful, so so. It's one of those pieces that gives me that swelling emotion feeling that gets stuck in your throat. Also, when people actually know to stand up? Because tradition? It makes me feel connected to something bigger, just like the music does. If I had to describe joy, I don't think I could do better than to point to the feeling I get during those high, high notes in "The Hallelujah Chorus."
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