Thank you for sourdough bread with chocolate.

Thank you for hazelnut butter (with or without chocolate).

Thank you for Coco the whirling dervish.

Thank you for beautiful skies. If your surroundings lack inspiration, go out and look up! 

Thank you for Juley Bee from Etsy bringing back the love cows. Thank you for her kindness and talent. Thank you for artists who enhance lives beyond their own. 

Thank you for induction cooktops and electric ovens.

Thank you for quotes from the Growth Equation newsletter:

“Get comfortable spending time on the plateau.”

“Breakthroughs often occur after periods of static, even stagnation. Generally speaking, you have to wrestle with and absorb the work before you start to realize its benefits, especially in an observable manner.”

Thank you for cold splashes of water to wake up the face.

Thank you for greased hinges.

Thank you for mornings, afternoons, evenings, and nights.

Thank you for routines. Thank you for the comfort in their repetitive uneventfulness and the value in what they cultivate.

Thank you for the ability to be there for loved ones in need.

Thank you for another move on the horizon. Thank you for life about to completely change again.

Thank you for the journal of controversial ideas, which I’ve never read, but it sounds interesting.

Thank you for mindful inquiry to reduce stress.

Thank you for baby-step thoughts. One day I was agonizing over a life path. My mind chatter said I wasn’t good at anything—nothing career-worthy, anyhow. Then a voice asked me to think of what I can do. Well, I can write letters. (Some have had influence.) Later, I realized another capacity is to feed people.

What “little” things can you do? Appreciate the easy stuff that comes naturally, that you enjoy. Take stock of gifts you tend to overlook or minimize. Acknowledge when you see an impact stem from action. Be aware. Focus energy with intention. My hunch is doing so grows one’s influence.

Thank you for new year’s resolutions remembered. Thank you for moving forward little by little.

Thank you for completion of the search for “home” lifting a heavy burden. 

Thank you again for all the blessings within uncertainty and so-called wasted time. Wandering broadens our perspectives. Understandings become stretchier as they reach in multiple directions, and we grow just as comfortable in uncertainty as we are appreciative of feeling secure.

Thank you for the wish never to feel that I’ve arrived home and instead to see that nowhere and everywhere are both home.

Thank you for the clean happy energy after a tub soak. Thank you for shampoo days.

Thank you for moonshine backlighting tiger-stripe clouds.

Thank you for the latest read, the Tao Te Ching. It’s poetry. The words seem too sparse to convey meaning. But then each re-read is like another coat of light paint on a dark surface. 

Thank you for Peaches resting her head on my feet.

Thank you for family and friends. I love you. Thank you for neighbors. I’m working to love you too.

Thank you for our futures.