#5JoysFriday!
💐 Thank you notes & flowers from my EfM group
🦖 A T-Rex shadow I saw on a walk
🪻 Larkspur from the garden
🐸 Frobbits by India Rose Crawford: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1885169772337248?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&mibextid=wwXIf...
🖋️ Reading through poems I‘d saved years ago & coming across “God Says Yes to Me” by Kaylin Haught (Poem ⤵️)
#5JoysFriday! Here are a few joys from my week—and you can add a bonus joy of seeing everyone else‘s 5 joys 😊
1. My sister made me this crochet Frog & Toad and they make me smile every time I see them
2. One of my best friends sent me a slew of ridiculous bird names and I can‘t stop laughing at them
3. My husband‘s piano music
4. Leading a reflective Quiet Day retreat on Saturday
5. A breath-of-fresh-air meeting with my spiritual director
#5JoysFriday
1. Great weekend visiting friends in Alpine—good conversation, playing board games, eating good food, hanging out on their deck reading together
2. Tasty Thai food with a good friend on Wednesday
3. Good catch-up with former co-workers today, over delicious Greek food
4. These crazy little strawberries (I decided I had one that could walk and one that could talk)
5. This poem: https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-peace-of-wild-things/
#5JoysFriday!
My first three are more treasures unearthed from the garage:
1. Beautiful blue glass vases which I have filled with larkspur from the garden
2. My brother‘s soccer shirt from when he was a kid in the early 80s, featuring the name of their sponsor: “Drugs-N-Such” 🤣
3. My summer library reading program certificates from childhood, one of which proclaims: “The Sizzler Proudly Salutes You”
Continued ⤵️
I‘m late for #5JoysFriday, but still joyful!
1. Time with family (picture is of my niece, her daughter, and my dad)
2. Finishing a bookish puzzle with covers of favorite children‘s books
3. The Olympics! I was obsessed with Artistic Swimming this week—amazing!!
4. Going to see Inside Out 2 (finally!) with my husband
5. Meeting my Spiritual Direction year 1 cohort for the first time last night
Small joys this week for #5JoysFriday:
The first picture illustrates three joys:
1. My husband folded & put away the laundry without being asked
2. With the laundry put away, I can enjoy the fact that the bed is made & also admire my gorgeous wedding quilt
3. That little Peeps bunny plushie on the bed? I gave it to my husband at Easter as kind of a joke and he LOVES it. Seeing it on the bed (where he keeps it!) makes me smile!
4. Library joys! ⤵️
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii I had to look at little joys this week as our nephew, who is only in his 40s, had a heart attack on July 1st. For some reason, it seems younger people are having this problem. He is doing OK but he will have to change a lot in his life.
1. A lady bug in my garden
2. I did a painting.
3. I finished #ISpyBingoFebruary
4. Blackberries ready to pick
5. I had a WaterSkimmer Dragonfly in my yard, never before seen
My daughter got this sweet little book for Christmas. It has a simple activity for each day of the year to bring a moment of joy - an adult might call this mindfulness but I like to think that to a child it is still that wondrous happiness that defines childhood (or should). For example, today we are being "thankful for cuddling" and asked about our favourite cuddly toy. Super cute illustrations as well!
The Little Book of Joy: 365 Ways to Celebrate Every Day | 
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
she said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don‘t paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I‘m telling you is
Yes Yes Yes (edited) 2w