Hello! I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to join a group of bloggers who are writing the 50 things for which they are grateful. The trick was we had to write the list in 10 minutes (adding pictures and links came later and did not count toward the total time). I had no trouble at all coming up with so many things to be thankful for. Life is rich. I live in a beautiful place. I have a solid support network, good friends, a loving family. When times get hard, I try to remember these things. I started the list off with some of the things I repeat to myself on mornings when running is challenging–I am grateful for my body parts that all work as they should. If you’d like to join in on the gratitude blogging fun, you can find instructions at the bottom of this blog. Enjoy!
- Strong legs
- Healthy heart
- Good lungs
- Massage therapy with Kristi
- Physical therapy with Clare
- My regular therapy therapist
- The time I have every day to run
- The beautiful trails in Bellingham
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- Anna and Taylor
- My house and home
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- Dungeness crab
- The Red Wheelbarrow writing community
- My brother and his family
- The opportunity to go to school, again
- The road trip I took this summer
- Beautiful days on the Oregon coast
- The trip to Mexico this summer with my brother and niece
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- Being Freshly Pressed
- Writing
- My writing friends
- Being asked to read my friend’s memoir
- Money in the bank
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- The Jeep
- Good neighbors
- The opportunity to learn, every day, about self-awareness
- Creativity
- The Haiku Room
- The AROHO community
- Being published in Beyond Belief and in Untangling the Knot
- Ribbons for running
- Running buddies
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- Sweet computer skillz
- Christmas Eve with the family
- Friends from school
- Marge, for letting us stay in her home this quarter
- New friends
- Old friends
- Carpools
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- Ragnar Relay
- Dear Sugar Radio
- WiFi
- Health Insurance
- Going car shopping with Anna
- My 401k
- Books
- Beer
- Wicked Women Writers
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- SynCRONEessence (writing group)
- Coffee
- Wild salmon
To join in on the fun:
If you’d like to join in, here’s how it works: set a timer for 10 minutes; timing this is critical. Once you start the timer, start your list. The goal is to write 50 things that made you happy in 2015, or 50 thing that you feel grateful for. The idea is to not think too hard; write what comes to mind in the time allotted. When the timer’s done, stop writing. If you haven’t written 50 things, that’s ok. If you have more than 50 things and still have time, keep writing; you can’t feel too happy or too grateful! When I finished my list, I took a few extra minutes to add links and photos.
To join the bloggers who have come together for this project: 1) Write your post and publish it (please copy and paste the instructions from this post, into yours) 2) Click on the link at the bottom of this post. 3) That will take you to another window, where you can past the URL to your post. 4) Follow the prompts, and your post will be added to the Blog Party List.
Please note that only blog posts that include a list of 50 (or an attempt to write 50) things that made you feel Happy or 50 things that you are Grateful for, will be included. Please don’t add a link to a post that isn’t part of this exercise.
Pamela Helberg 