Nothing can ever happen twice ( Read more... )

There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill ( Read more... )

Normally, this is a once-a-day gratitude practice for the week of Thanksgiving, but November was hard ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for bright umbrellas, and for other small, bright tokens that are reminders on gray days that color exists and we can carry it with us.

Today, I'm thankful for nature, and its inescapableness. There are times, of course, when that's harder to appreciate -- that swelteringly hot summer day, or the bone chilling blustery wet winds of the shoulder seasons -- but I love the rhythms of the seasons, and coming to know how they take shape year to year in a place that I've lived long ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for the friendship I had with contessagrrl. It was uniquely wonderful in what she and I brought out in each other, in how we could join together in fun and play and delight in the world, in our fellow humans, in taking big bites of experience together ( Read more... )

I am thankful for activists. I'm so goddamn thankful that there are people who push the edges further, to make our society and institutions more supportive of humanity, life, the planet, compassion, sustainability ( Read more... )

Today, I'm giving thanks for people who expand my notion of myself, who hold me to high standards, who bring out the best in me, and who allow me to do the same for them. I love the way so many people I know strive, and therefore inspire me to strive also. We hold each other up with our work to climb higher ourselves, helping each other save our ( Read more... )

It's pretty hard to feel thankful this year. In the last two weeks, contessagrrl died suddenly and unexpectedly, and Trump was elected ( Read more... )

“Affirmation” by Assata Shakur ( Read more... )