A weekly round-up of various things that provided me with joy and happiness.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. My steaming Ham Bone Pinto Soup from leftover holiday ham.
2. The ability to Breathe. To Simply Breathe.
I believe that breathing is the greatest and continual joy of being alive.
3. My preference for blurry pictures of myself as I get older.
4. This incredible warm spell we’re having here in Savannah.
We slept with open windows last night! In January.
5. The joy of the forest.
May your weekend be a lush forest of that which you consider good.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. A beautiful Martin Luther King Day parade here in Savannah.
2. Truth:
3. Grandson Gabriel’s soaring pink basketball shoes.
4. The incredible luxury of owning a car! Which like many (most?) things I usually take for granted.
Here’s ours …
Kidding.
Here it is …
(With Robert texting or something in his skinny jeans.)
Ours may be little and a bit shy, but she takes us from Point A to Point B. And even sometimes from Point A to Point Z!
5. You in all your You-ness.
May You and your You-ness find Warmth and a measure of Joy this weekend.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. January’s camellias here in Savannah.
2. I know I have expressed gratitude about this before, but isn’t it just such an incredible luxury to have Hot and Cold Running Water?!
3. This little fellow I met yesterday.
We chatted for a while. And he posed for a pic.
4. Simple sidewalk beauty.
5. A little bit of Christmas simply refusing to go away.
May weekend beauty find you.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. Robert’s little sidewalk garden in January.
2. Speaking of “little,” this neat little car we saw near a coffee shop the other day.
If it ran out of gas, you could just carry it home.
3. Jackets and sweaters.
4. Cow plates.
5. This truth …
Have a Blessed Weekend ahead!
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. Our little cabin on Lake Delano at F.D. Roosevelt State Park in Pine Mountain GA over Christmas weekend.
2. HR grilling bbq chicken thighs while I watch comfortably from the cabin porch.
3. Speaking of grilling, driving to Dowdell’s Knob near the state park to see where FDR had a stone grill overlooking the Georgia hills.
Here’s the … “grill.”
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LOVED TO PICNIC HERE, AND HE HAD THIS GRILL BUILT. IT WAS FILLED IN TO PRESERVE IT.
F. D. R. Warm Springs Memorial Commission
Well, it ain’t a Big Green Egg.
4. The Joy of Travel.
5. Surviving the hilly and creek-crossing 4.2 mile Cascade Falls Hike (a part of the 22 mile Pine Mountain Trail) on Christmas Eve.
May we all have Reason to Smile as we hike toward the end of 2023.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. Our amaryllis …
… blooming at just the tight time.
2. Beautifully precious grandchildren …
3. Cold and hot running water! What an incredibly tremendous blessing (which I far too often take for granted).
4. Our annual tradition of reading the delightfully nostalgic little book, A Cup of Christmas Tea and enjoying tea and cookies.
5. The reason for the season.
Have a Blessed Christmasv Weekend.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. A truly wonderful anniversary trip to Atlanta last week. Year 7.
2. Marveling at the AMAZING outdoor lights display at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Garden Lights, Holiday Nights.
And Atlanta won the National Championship of outdoor holiday light displays!
3. The Amazing Ability to see!
4. This tree outside our Airbnb in Atlanta.
5. My anniversary cards from HR. (You may recall that Robert has this wacky habit of giving multiple cards on special occasions. Which at first I thought was sort of weird but now love it.)
May you have a colorful weekend ahead!
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. SO enjoying last night’s Savannah Telfair Museum Christmas Tree lighting and Design District Holiday Walk.
2. Our wonderful (and often taken-for-granted) EYESIGHT.
3. HR’s nickname … Squirrel.
4. Washington Square at dusk. We live just off Washington Square in downtown Savannah. (Savannah has 22 extant squares, and ours is the northeast most one near the river.)
It’s one of my favorite places to read or rest.
5. Underrated beauty in fall’s scraggly bushes.
May you find lotsa beauty this weekend.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. This incredible Christmas Cactus in the hallway of our local YMCA.
2. Continuing our tradition of putting up our Travel Tree on Thanksgiving night.
Each ornament is from somewhere we have visited over the years.
3. The ability to smell. Especially during the holiday season!
4. Having a cozy spot to read and touch toes with HR.
5. Pretty blossoms reaching down to pose for photos with Robert.
May you find a cozy spot to enjoy this weekend.
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