It’s good to look up and to look down. I love all of nature.

A quiet Saturday here, buying more Christmas presents and exercising and resting.

I’m letting that be enough for today. So much of this year has been learning to give myself and others grace.

Yes to grace.

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27 years ago today, I started dating my husband.

Twenty seven years.

That’s a long time. I am grateful for all those years of togetherness and changing and growing together. We celebrated by climbing together and then eating at what turned out to be a terrible restaurant which we laughed about for quite some time.

Yes to togetherness and celebrating.

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As expected today was a long day. I am depleted from being on all day, from commuting and socializing all day.

But it was also really wonderful to see people in person and have face-to-face conversations.

Yes to holding space for both.

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Today was the kind of day I wish every day in this vacation had been like. I spent some really lovely time with a friend this morning and then came home and did some journaling and finally got up to exercise and almost immediately felt better than I had all week. Then I meditated for 10 minutes.

Then I made my spinach, water and orange drink and some peas and corn and rice. And now my whole body is sizzling with the leftover energy from exercise and I feel so deeply grateful.

I wish I would do a better job remembering how good this feels. Ending the vacation in a high note at least.

Yes to a good day.

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Feeling grateful for the small things that make me happy today: good books, music, puzzle, lovely chats with friends and warm tea.

Simples pleasures of life.

Yes to seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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