gratitude post

[falcongrrl]

For a while now, I've been admiring people's Thankful Thursday posts. However, being a combination of compulsive and spacy has kept me from participating - I either think of things to be thankful for, and then think, 'wait, it's not Thursday, I can't post that yet,' and so don't...or it's Thursday and I keep meaning to do it and don't get around to it...or, conversely, it's Thursday and I'm pissy and just don't feel like it.

So, I've decided that since, post-Thanksgiving holidays, I want to make gratitude a regular part of my life, I'm going to make lists just whenever the mood strikes. I hope that it will happen a lot. But I'll put the lists behind a cut, because I care. :-)



being able to finally leave the windows open and not have to run the AC at home (this could change at any time - damn Florida weather - but it's nice for now)

setting up the Yule tree and decorating the house a bit

making plans to do holiday crafts with my kids

still having some of last year's holiday-scented incense from http://www.makeincense.com, and using it! (yes, I cheated and got beetiger to make it)

chatting with friends last night after a week away

picking up things and putting them away in my house :-)

morning time alone

Tara Brach's book Radical Acceptance, highly recommended

the lightening that's come along with the above book

coffee

my pagan group

preschool

Comments

[wapsi.livejournal.com]

Could you say a little about Radical Acceptance? The title sounds interesting to me. What do you like about it?

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Well, it's written from a Buddhist perspective, but it's very gently handled - the idea is to observe your thoughts and emotions without really trying to change them, and to face your boredom/craving/hurt feelings, noting the things you do to try to control them. The idea is to just kind of accept all of the things that your self is doing but not to be defined by them, to stay in touch with All That Is, with the parts that are somehow bigger than that. I'm not really doing it justice, but it's really helping me a lot to let go of some of my habitual self-blame and condemnation and (conversely) self-indulgence, because it's harder to do things mindlessly.

[wapsi.livejournal.com]

That sounds nice. I'll look for it at the library next time I get there.