:: Thrums :: » gratitude http://www.timethrums.com/blog life with needles and thread Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:03:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 the sheer beauty of a saturday morning http://www.timethrums.com/blog/2010/08/the-sheer-beauty-of-a-saturday-morning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-sheer-beauty-of-a-saturday-morning http://www.timethrums.com/blog/2010/08/the-sheer-beauty-of-a-saturday-morning/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:20:32 +0000 Lori http://www.timethrums.com/blog/?p=1369 the sheer beauty of a saturday morningAfter three nights in a row featuring outstanding nightmares (night 1: Hitler! night 2: zombies! night 3: covered in insects and they're even crawling out of my nose and mouth!), I'm grateful for these things: an absolutely gorgeous morning, weather-wise. no humidity or excessive heat, just 74 lovely degrees and blue and sunny skies my dear and darling husband has made a Chinatown run, which means (1) lots of fresh cherries, (2) a bunch of seafood, and (3) very i... Read more..]]> After three nights in a row featuring outstanding nightmares (night 1: Hitler! night 2: zombies! night 3: covered in insects and they’re even crawling out of my nose and mouth!), I’m grateful for these things:

  • an absolutely gorgeous morning, weather-wise. no humidity or excessive heat, just 74 lovely degrees and blue and sunny skies
  • my dear and darling husband has made a Chinatown run, which means (1) lots of fresh cherries, (2) a bunch of seafood, and (3) very interesting vegetables. It also means (4) a couple of hours all to my delicious self. And then he’ll be back home.
  • my favorite music on the iTunes playlist: annie lennox, john prine, REM, feist, amos lee, elton john, diana krall, and bluegrass
  • homemade blueberry coffeecake for breakfast, with a big mug of really great coffee
  • the pleasure of having done work that was FUN and also well received
  • a long day, stretching out in front of me with open arms and nothing planned

Hope it’s the same for all of you. I’m off to actually do something. First, though, I’ve gotta do the twist – “you never can tell” by chuck berry is on!

edit, after dancing: when my kids were little, and i was going to school full-time and working and raising them by myself, i had 4 chore lists – 3 kid-friendly and one for me. each week, the kids’ lists rotated. we’d do a cleaning blitz…we’d each take our list of chores, do them in a pre-arranged amount of time then we’d all meet in the living room when the timer went off. i’d put American Pie on, and we’d dance dance dance until we fell on the ground in a sweaty out-of-breath pile. we’d do the fun and easy dances – the twist, the monkey, the pony, the swim – it didn’t matter. it was just so much fun, and one of my favorite memories. dancing in the living room is the BEST.

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]]> http://www.timethrums.com/blog/2010/08/the-sheer-beauty-of-a-saturday-morning/feed/ 7 grace and gratitude http://www.timethrums.com/blog/2010/03/grace-and-gratitude/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grace-and-gratitude http://www.timethrums.com/blog/2010/03/grace-and-gratitude/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:03:47 +0000 Lori http://www.timethrums.com/blog/?p=93 grace and gratitudetoday is one of those not-so-good anniversaries that people have - one i dread every year. but i find myself feeling like a lucky person today. one of my daughters turned 25 on wednesday and was hit by a car while riding her bicycle. but she was not too terribly hurt... Read more..]]> today is one of those not-so-good anniversaries that people have – one i dread every year. but i find myself feeling like a lucky person today. one of my daughters turned 25 on wednesday and was hit by a car while riding her bicycle. but she was not too terribly hurt, just bruised and sore, and she had one of the best birthdays of her life. i have a surprisingly large number of real , people i can and do count on to know me and love me [anyway], people i love and cherish. i get to be in this world another day. are coming. days are getting longer. banjo music. the beach, in 8 days. i have a job, whatever else i may say about it. my book club. my writing group. authors – “my” authors – whose work i admire and who are people i am so proud to know, and it still surprises me that i know these amazing and oustanding people. i live in manhattan, where i always wanted to live. i love and am loved by a man who shares a soul with me. i get to travel and see the world with that man….still arm-pinching in its surprise, for a homeless girl from wichita falls, texas. i have grown children whose lives transformed mine, and who are very fine people out in this world.

and are coming. who can be sad when they look at .

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