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Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
– Carrie Latet
1. The anticipation of Christmas Eve
2. wrapping presents
3. sticky gift tag labels
What are you grateful for or happy about this Christmas Eve?
Don’t look at your feet to see if you’re doing it right. Just dance.
– from Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
1. Zumba!
2. planning parties
3. holiday parties during work hours
What have you got to be happy about or grateful for this week?
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
– Samuel Johnson
1. when internet people become real people (I had lunch with Dawn yesterday, who was in town doing some very important work)
2. trying new recipes
3. the anticipation of Christmas
P.S. I swear I’m really trying to do more than two posts a week. I don’t mean to be lazy, I just am.
Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant landmines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
– Diane Ackerman
1. the smell of the pine-scented candle that only comes out at Christmas greeting me when I walk in the door
2. preparations for the Great Cookie Weekend of Aught-Nine
3. a good idea
What are you happy about or grateful for this week?
Thanksgiving day is a jewel to set in the hearts of honest men;
but be careful that you do not take the day and leave out the gratitude.
– E.P. Powell
1. Thanksgiving with family
2. road trips
3. “history of food” shows – I love learning all about where nachos and donuts and Tootsie Rolls come from!
I hope you’re all celebrating with loved ones today, and I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving!
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
– G.K. Chesterton
So, I took a little hiatus from this feature, though I’m not really sure why. In any event, it’s back, so let’s get to it.
1. Macaroni and cheese
2. Getting some Christmas shopping done early.
3. An honest day’s work
That’s what I’m happy about this week – what about you?
My soul is full of whispered song;
my blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
are all alive with light.
– Dying Hymn, by Alice Cary
Today, the happiness is hard to find, so let’s focus on things I’m grateful for:
1. that a wonderful, smart, kind woman isn’t in pain anymore
2. that she had the best possible care — in her own home, which she loved so much — until the very end
3. that the people who loved her had the opportunity — one not afforded to many — to make sure she knew how much she was loved
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
– Sir Edmund Hillary
1. the ability to accept the help that is available to you
2. sleeping with the windows open, and the resulting decreased electricity bill
3. having more money than you have bills
These are the things I’m thankful for this week. How about you?
Farewell, my sister, fare thee well,
The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.
– from Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare
1. the chance to say goodbye
2. seeing something you’ve committed to bear results
3. gift cards
What are you grateful for this week?
If dreams are like movies
then memories are films about ghosts
– Counting Crows, Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby
1. going through old memories
2. clearing out clutter
3. finally getting the guest room in full order, after 6 months
How about you? What are you happy about this week?
P.S. I know I haven’t posted the rest of our trip – or anything but Three Things recently – and I’m sorry. I just haven’t felt motivated to take the time to do it. Hopefully I’ll get around to it soon.
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