Today I'm grateful.
For my family, and the small joys tucked into our daily conversations and familiar routines. Our empathetic ears, wise words, laughter, and the warmth of knowing that, at the end of the day, I am surrounded by so much unconditional love and support - truly a kind of wealth worth more than almost anything.
I’m grateful for each complicated, wonderfully unique soul in my family, from building teepees to building businesses to raising hermit crabs. For the privilege of knowing one another so deeply, of witnessing each other change and grow, and of continuing to love one another through all the different versions of ourselves.
I’m even grateful for my estranged (for now) brother, a NASA engineer who lives with his wife on the other side of the country. I’m grateful that he has seemingly found happiness. From afar, I still send him boundless affection and hugs. And a Happy Birthday email each February.
And perhaps most of all, I’m grateful for the great health we all find ourselves in right now. It certainly hasn't always been this way.
I am grateful for the lush summer land and all that it gives us in food, beauty, and healing. For gardens overflowing with tomatoes and peas, trees heavy with leaves and fruit, wildflowers growing everywhere they please, moths at my window, and bunnies hopping through my yard.
I'm grateful for the quiet summer days reading, sunbathing, and grocery shopping, and also for the ones filled to the brim with adventure, holidays, birthdays, and activities, which keeps me full for weeks to come!
I'm grateful in this moment that I'm still young enough to have lots of “firsts." Places I haven’t seen. Experiences I haven’t had. People I haven’t met. Stories I can’t even imagine yet.
I love that no matter how much of this life I think I’ve lived...I know there is still so much more life waiting for me to experience. So many more summers to come!
I’m grateful for the passions that keep something sparkly and alive within me. For new ideas that pop into my head at 5 am. For feeling like there is always more to create. More to learn. More to become. More to GIVE!
Today, I'm endlessly grateful for....
Slow July mornings.
The soft coo of my doves, even when they never stop.
Daily sunshine walks.
Smiling strangers.
Crisp summer bento bowls.
Bare feet.
Day trips.
And seriously. I’m grateful for John.
Today, I am so wildly full of gratitude that my heart explodes just thinking about it. It’s not because I have everything and life is perfect. It’s because I see just how much I DO have.
I am blessed. Need the T-Shirt. And a mug too.
What fills YOUR heart today?