We’ve had 42 days of rain, not all day (thankfully!), but the reservoirs are full again (thankful), and the water tables are nearly where they should be (thankful) — however the lawn is completely slurpy-squishy, which isn’t going to percolate deeper any time soon. But this week reminded me that gratitude is often not loud, or grand, but a pause where breath becomes visible (it’s soo cold), and we realise we are still here.
1. For the ever so slight hint of green in the trees. Blackthorn white blossoms are beginning to appear also.
The Irish call blackthorn straif, which sounds similar to strife; it’s bad luck to bring blackthorn into your house. Christian tradition suggests that the thorns on Jesus’s head were blackthorn.
2. Thankful for Waze. It diverted us around a multi-vehicle accident, and a 90-minute queue in stormy weather on the motorway.
3. Thankful that we made it home safely.
4. Thankful that people walking in the forest aren’t cutting the naturalised croci, snowdrops, and daffodils to bring home.
5. For enough leftovers from the roast chicken to make a lovely chicken and veg soup. Soup, lovely soup.
6. For 20-minutes of precious sunshine before it resumed raining.
I am thankful I’m not visiting Copenhagen this week because they’re up to their Lacoste alligator logos in snow and ice.
7. Watching the (female) robins build nests in the garden. It makes my heart happy.
It’s amazing how good a phone’s camera is. This one is cropped.
8. For Denise’s Six Sentence Story.
Follow along as Brigid and Felreil flee England during the Swing Riots for France in the mid-1800s. They discover there’s rebellion everywhere.
9. That obstacles are balanced with a determined heart to enjoy a thoroughly fun day doing what I love.
10. Thankful to find things that make me stop, if only for a heartbeat, and say, yes— this is enough. This is good.
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