Tag: Happiness

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 2/9/24

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. Robert’s yummy Kale and Egg Breakfast Soufflé.

(Along with my clove/dill refrigerator pickles.)

2. This terrific little book HR and I recently finished.

It beautifully illustrates “trans, nonbinary and gender expansive” individuals who have made/continue to make a positive and healthy difference in our world.

3. Fallen beauty.

Pink camellias near us.

4. Friday morning at 7:36, in my pj’s and robe, lazily blogging on the couch. (Hey, I’m retired.)

5. Strolling down an alley near us and seeing a downtown (Savannah) neighbor getting a head start on Spring and Easter.

I seem to have some sort of Pink Theme going on this Friday.

So may you be Tickled Pink at least one time this weekend.

Doreen Erhardt

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/26/24

Posted on by Neal Saye

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.

(Ignore the dumbbells. I do.)

5. The joy of the forest.

May your weekend be a lush forest of that which you consider good.

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Going Coastal

Posted on by Neal Saye

So Robert and I live in beautiful Historic District Savannah …

Savannah.com

… about 20 minutes from Tybee Island …

Tybeeisland.org

… and the Atlantic Ocean.

Tybee Island

Living near the coast is terrific.

But it does get on my nerves a teeny tiny bit that “Coastal” is incorporated into SO many businesses, organizations, etc. here.

My dermatologist is Coastal Dermatology.

My dentist is Coastal Dentistry.

My chiropractor is Coastal Chiropractic

Even my daughter Amy owns a local health care company called COASTAL Care Partners, for goodness sake!

https://www.coastalcarepartners.com

And she has a dog named (of course) Coastal.

Who may or may not be gay.

We’re going Coastal!

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/19/24

Posted on by Neal Saye

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.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/12//24

Posted on by Neal Saye

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.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/29/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

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.

Cool statue of FDR, the only one showing his paralyzed legs without braces.

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.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/22/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

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.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/1/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

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.

New ornament

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.