- Beginning a third year of making these lists
- a midafternoon yoga flow class
- a brief period of bus reading
- ice cream
- watching a bit of television on dvd
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 1
Today's Daily 5:
2 Full Years of Daily 5 Lists
Can you all believe it? When I sit down in a little while to write tonight's Daily 5 list, it will be the first list of the third year of counting moments of joy.
The daily 5 lists were born out of a particularly bad weekend surrounding my birthday two years back. It was the sort of weekend that I hope I never have to repeat - one filled with conflict and despair. Out of it came the desire to count smiles, moments I was thankful for. In the first days of making those lists, I struggled for every one of those five items. It took everything I had to find five little reasons to smile in a day, and in those first days and weeks, there was a lot of repetition in the items that appeared on my list at the end of each day.
These days, it's a lot easier to make the lists most of the time, and I'm thankful for that. But, more than that, I'm thankful for the ongoing quest to find joy and life that making these lists has birthed in me. I'm thankful that I spend my days (some of them anyway) looking for things that are new to add to my list, or things that are old, but were particularly sweet in a given day.
It's been 2 years - 730 days - of making lists. Here's to many, many more lists!
The daily 5 lists were born out of a particularly bad weekend surrounding my birthday two years back. It was the sort of weekend that I hope I never have to repeat - one filled with conflict and despair. Out of it came the desire to count smiles, moments I was thankful for. In the first days of making those lists, I struggled for every one of those five items. It took everything I had to find five little reasons to smile in a day, and in those first days and weeks, there was a lot of repetition in the items that appeared on my list at the end of each day.
These days, it's a lot easier to make the lists most of the time, and I'm thankful for that. But, more than that, I'm thankful for the ongoing quest to find joy and life that making these lists has birthed in me. I'm thankful that I spend my days (some of them anyway) looking for things that are new to add to my list, or things that are old, but were particularly sweet in a given day.
It's been 2 years - 730 days - of making lists. Here's to many, many more lists!
Whimsical Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Another eclectic collection of images from pinterest for today's edition of Whimsical Wednesday! Clearly I was into words this week! This week is kind of a weird mix of words that spoke to some of the deepest parts of my soul and current journey, and some things that quite simply made me laugh out loud!
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