This has been an exceptionally busy and happy week of appointments and errands and enjoying evening after evening of fun outings with friends. Today’s gratitude list, then, starts off with a sense of profound thankfulness for the wonderful people in my life and the many, many opportunities to enjoy good times that continually present themselves to me.
Hope you’ll join me in this week’s Gratitude Linkup!
(If you’d like a bit of background on why I started the Gratitude Linkup, check out this post.)
How to get involved in the Gratitude Linkup
- Write and post an entry in your own blog containing your gratitude list for a moment in time.
- Share the URL to your gratitude blog post by clicking the “add your link” button at the end of this post and filling out the information.
- Share the Gratitude Linkup with your blog readers by clicking the “get the InLinkz code” link at the end of this post and copy/pasting the appropriate code into your gratitude blog post.
- Visit some of the blogs listed in the Gratitude Linkup and comment on their posts.
My Gratitude List
In no particular order, here is my own gratitude list for this moment in time. I hope that after reading it you’ll go on to write and share your own!
- My fabulous hair stylist who helps me make the very most and best of what I have.
- Being able to pass on some skill or bit of knowledge and make someone else’s life a little better in the process.
- Showers (as in the instead-of-a-bath variety), fresh and invigorating and clean-making.
- Non-junky dollar store finds – like the amazing portable-size paper cutter I picked up for $3.00 that works an absolute treat.
- Creating something that not only makes me happy, but is appreciated by and benefits others.
- Random Acts of Kindness – the opportunity to share without expecting anything in return.
- Being able to help my team almost win at Pub Stumpers Trivia this week (second only by a point!), even though I’m really NOT very good at trivia. (Finally, some use for that stockpile of 80s music memories occupying space in my brain!)
- Interesting book club discussions.
- Learning from diversity of opinions, views, experience.
- The online friends who participate in the Gratitude Linkup each week.
- Inspirational news stories.
- Simon & Garfunkel.
- Talented friends who write good books.
- A moment of realization that, in spite of a handful of things I wish were different, I wouldn’t trade my life or who I am for anything.
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Excellent! I had just left you a message to find out when the next one comes. TY! I love this exercise. It’s a great reminder about what matters.
Elizabeth
Twitter: alphabetsalad
February 16, 2014
Good timing!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
Twitter: DianeAllinson
February 16, 2014
Great gratitude list, and great idea in the Gratitude Linkup. I shall get started on it. Thanks
Di recently posted… The elephant and the chain: what binds your mind?
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February 16, 2014
Thank you!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
Twitter: DianeAllinson
February 16, 2014
Phew! I’ve done it! and now I have another gratitude, that I learnt how to put code in my post for the first time
Di recently posted… Gratitude rocks! Live it!
Twitter: alphabetsalad
February 16, 2014
Excellent! Really glad you joined in, and will check out your post.
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
Love your trivia comment. My husband and I won second place last year at a contest in a local restaurant–the best we’ve ever done. We got a $20 gift card for it!
Twitter: alphabetsalad
February 16, 2014
Well done! The others in our group are amazingly good, so most of the time I feel rather useless, LOL! I’m just happy if I can contribute an answer or two that they wouldn’t have otherwise got – when the teams are that close, even a point or two can make a difference.
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
This is a great list. I think it’s important to have a list and look at it daily. Sometimes we tend to focus on the things we don’t have instead of the things we do have. This is a great reminder! Thanks for sharing!
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February 16, 2014
Thanks, Nate – I think you’re right!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
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February 16, 2014
I love this idea and am going to participate in it! Woo-hoo! Thank you for sharing this fun thing to do.
Jeanne Melanson recently posted… Let It Go – Frozen – Alex Boyé (Africanized Tribal Cover) Ft. One Voice Children’s Choir
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February 16, 2014
You’re welcome! Glad you’re joining in!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
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February 16, 2014
I love reading your positive posts. It’s all about “the law of attraction”
Twitter: alphabetsalad
February 16, 2014
Thank you, Sophie!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
Smiled at Simon and Garfunkel. I like them, too.
Thanks for the Gratitude Link-ups! The best kind of sharing.
Twitter: alphabetsalad
February 16, 2014
You’re most welcome!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – February 1-15, 2014
So glad for this gratitude linkup myself! Realizations are so wonderful to have, especially when they’re about my life being a-ok with me
Life Breath Present recently posted… Gratitude Linkup – Week of 2/16/14
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February 17, 2014
I totally agree!
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Love my visits here!
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February 18, 2014
I’m glad, Diane!
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