brown bananas

 I am grateful for oatmeal, mashed bananas, ground cashews, strawberries, sweet butter, salt and salmon.

Jules J. Berta Winery

 

Alabama's wine tour

 

I am grateful for friends and time and muscadine wine.

good one

 

Loss of twelve pounds in six weeks with less belly. I need to take advantage of more outdoor light. Attempting to regulate mood.

I am grateful for a morning, an evening, a card, a signature, a name we share between us, cashews, a big pink bag, a song, a call, a visit, plenty of cupcakes to give, a butter dish, a CD, a candle and the plans to hike.

the intermittent interrupting of the internet

 

Another momentary pause of existence. Have to write fast.

Today I am grateful for an end to a year and a week.

groceries

 Twenty-two hours fasting - two hours eating has turned into twenty-two hours forty-five minutes fasting - one hour fifteen minutes eating and me wondering six weeks in if I should be concerned about lack of sleep and increase in fatigue - ugly combination unless it's a house that needs cleaning.

I am grateful to see an old friend, the lemon pie recipe, the ingredients for said lemon pie, the request, the peppers, the strawberries, the tomatoes, the cucumbers, the grapes and the celery.

go, team

 

I am grateful for place and time and warm breezy nights and lights when I can cheer and she can show me who I could only dream. I am grateful for games and kids and friends and fields.

that was a minute

 

It was at least a skip or a flutter - the sudden inhale of that moment when I realized I had left my computer at work on a Friday. Who could I call? How could I get it? And then - it's gotta be a gift.

I am grateful for some extra time to do some extra things for a woman who does and is love to all of us.

thunder

 

I am grateful for quality control, a team, a warm rain, a porch, a call, a story and an email that reads like an adventure.

they say it's not losing if you're learning

 

Who are they?

I am grateful for patience and forgiveness.

the score

 When I asked him about his tattoo he replied, "It's Paradise by the Dashboard Light."

Today I am grateful for help and kindness and work.

the day after Mia day

 

Today I am grateful for the girl who may love a morning hike as much as me.

overthinking it

 

What would I even say?

I am grateful for a day set aside for her.

color

 

I am grateful for a late afternoon hike and people who share their internet.

sweet Saturday

 

I am grateful for the sun and the fresh air and the family and the friends and the games and the dinner.

internet down

I am grateful for momentary flickers of existence, a pen and paper, cursive, the hum and the blow, the fog lifting, a day with such potential and coffee.

plenty of rest

 

I am grateful for a place to go to call, the nice guy on the phone, the reassurance that one day things will get better and how now they are.

23 days into this thing

 I am still not physically fully adjusted to this change, but the pros are outweighing the cons.

I am grateful for salmon and strawberries and lemons and cucumbers and little tomatoes and grapes and cherries and water. 

a horticulturist once remarked

 

"A horticulturist once remarked, 'the allegheny chinquapin makes your mouth water but to see it makes your eyes water,' obviously liking both the tree's beauty and bounty." Steve Nix

I am grateful for writers and projects and trees and people.

a dollar a square

 

I am grateful for a push, a muddle through, a focus and the drive home.

big day

 

I am grateful for coffee, a message, a table, a creek, the shadows of the pines on a blacktop road, the perfect shade of blue, the feeling that begins in that second mile, two pigs, two puppies and a calf.

clean sink

 

I am grateful for the opportunity to barter, running water, clean pillows and blankets and a kitchen prepared for the next meal.

that guy

 

Today I am grateful for the plumber I shouldn't ask to be a plumber, the chinquapin, the early leave, the late afternoon, the conversation, the cherries, the cashews, the walnuts, the wine, the lemon and the water.

listening

 

Today I am grateful for the kid, the plan, an email and the rain.

dang chestnuts

 

Two and a half weeks later I'm feeling like this fasting thing could maybe be a long term thing for me. 

I am grateful for a late rainy afternoon, stories and answers to questions that somehow connect us to the great chestnut tree initiative. 

scaling it back

 

Didn't forget the fruit. Ate too much. It's been a year.

Today I am grateful for her voice, a story about them, his video, their lives, groceries and sleep.