YOU are on my gratitude list every day, but today you’re featured in the top spot… because if it wasn’t for YOU, I would never have bothered with a blog and would have instead kept my writing to myself. Yet, because of YOU, I have had the joy of discovering how creatively challenging, empowering, fulfilling, and just plain fun writing for an audience can be. So thank you, my friends – for reading, for lurking quietly, for commenting publicly, and, sometimes, for taking the time to send private messages of appreciation for something I’ve said or shared. YOU have my heart and my gratitude!
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!
- Having a three-day weekend, every week. I do love my Mondays off!
- Book club discussions.
- Working extremely long and late one day to meet an annual deadline… a gentle reminder of just how fortunate I am to work part-time and regularly have so many hours to spend on my own personal, non-work interests.
- After a long day, having nothing more than a flight of stairs as my commute from the office to a comfy living room.
- Being trusted.
- Having a husband who cooks dinner every day.
- A serendipitous meet-up at the mall which resulted in a great visit and stimulating chat with a friend.
- Restaurants with delicious, inexpensive food.
- That joyous feeling of driving while listening to a favourite song and singing along at the top of my lungs, unselfconsciously and without abandon.
- Listening from another room when Peter plays the banjo or sings along to one of his favourite songs.
- Enjoying some quiet preparation in my tangle sketchbook and anticipating the creativity of my April blogging project.
- Spring! Spring! Spring!
- Both a) finding something I’d long been searching for and b) discovering it was being offered at a huge discount. Win-win!
- When good things happen to and for my friends.
Twitter: amarrnaik
March 30, 2014
everytime you i see this gratiture link i get inspired. going to try to post something in this list soon
Amar Naik recently posted… Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life
Twitter: alphabetsalad
March 30, 2014
I hope you do, Amar – you are always welcome! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Claiming the Gift of Time
Great gratitude list. Always nice to find that hard to find thing but to find it at a discount is even better.
Have a fabulous week
Twitter: alphabetsalad
March 30, 2014
Thanks, Kathy! I was so excited to find it, and can’t wait until I receive it! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Claiming the Gift of Time
Twitter: RamblinGarden
March 30, 2014
As a childhood friend of 51 years continues to battle cancer, and recently left the hospital after a week’s hospitalization for a sinus infection, I am grateful for the privilege of waking up every morning. Everything after that is just delicious chocolate frosting.
Alana recently posted… Civil War Sunday – The Storms of War
Twitter: alphabetsalad
March 30, 2014
Beautifully said. 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Claiming the Gift of Time
Twitter: 1951
March 30, 2014
I love all you women! I’m grateful for you, as well.
Carol Cassara recently posted… Jeff Brown on others’ baggage
Twitter: alphabetsalad
March 31, 2014
Ditto! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Claiming the Gift of Time
Twitter: CorinneBlogs
March 31, 2014
So nice to start the week on a grateful note, Laurel. Thank you for all you are!
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted… Anything Goes On Sunday – 4
Twitter: alphabetsalad
March 31, 2014
Thank you so much for the sweet comment, Corinne! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Claiming the Gift of Time
Twitter: Wordwrights, Ink
March 31, 2014
I love these posts! They stop me and turn me around an remind me to think of the thins that I am grateful for. Today? Family. And kindnesses.
Diane recently posted… Chokecherry Wine
Twitter: alphabetsalad
March 31, 2014
I’m so glad, Diane!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo A Day Challenge – March 15-31, 2014
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