Being thankful for my living-space and my sunny room. Being thankful for my health, for having access to the outdoors, and especially thankful for nature. By planting bulbs today and taking a bike ride in Concord.
By talking to people I want to be in touch with, with whom there is mutual respect, affection and encouragement.

Go to the beach on this warm, November day, with Lisa and Judith. Walk and watch and listen to the waves.

Cleaning out the basement where I live, with my housemates. Gave me an unexpected feeling of energy and hope. Getting rid of crap.

By getting off my computer, my Zoom calls, my stressful assignments, and biking out to a “north shore” beach near Boston.

By planting in my garden before the frost.

By working on reducing the clutter in my house. And in myself.

Can’t answer this. So many of you are posting wise and enlightened stuff. I have my desires and wishes. How life should be? Well, there are many things in the world, our country that not the way they “should” be. And many parts of my life that are not the way I want them to be. I don’t like this question.

Very agitated early this morning. Breathe, and stop. And when I did I heard the mockingbird sing and sing. So comforting.

Go outside and bike and get sun and green-ness.

Gives me the opportunity to notice my reactions and what I bump up against right away.
Sometimes takes me out of my own focus, when I see what others are dealing with.
And sometimes, as in tonight, it’s comforting to ask for help and receive it.

Being in nature. The love of trees, wildness, taking walks. Always knowing that being outdoors in green and nature is life-giving and nurturing.

Channel some of Nausheen’s practical, straightforward, no-nonsense, but cheerful manner. Having a goal I am looking forward to, as she does, in going back to her home country from the US.

To go for what I need. Which is a harmonious, orderly house and garden. If I have to share my space in this “co-op” I need to create a place I want to be in.
To learn to stay centered, and eager to live a life I want.

Yes, I will try to remember this. Emailing Nebyu’s father, welcoming his family back to the school, from Ethiopia.
Making roasted vegetables for Donna? I hope so.
Sitting in on Cynthia’s class, not knowing what to do, but being there, and encouraging her and them.

Today, the card from Nancy with the words ‘May the forest be with you.” Encouraging, short greeting from her.
The young man at Home Depot, who went out of his way to help me with my order.

By contacting my students and families. By doing my best to be a good teacher. Calling Rod to find out how my cousin Geraldine is doing after her heart surgery in Scotland.
By watering my plants and weeding and trying my best to create beauty and harmony. By cleaning up in the kitchen, so that others won’t have to deal with my mess. By leaving the bathroom clean.

Am learning how to stay with my discomfort and upset, and not reacting in the heat of the moment.
At least, I’m practicing- not always successfully!

Art is essential to everyone’s life in one form or another. In the last few years, I take a lot of photos- to capture the beauty in the moment: whether trees, plants, houses, people canning, the cats resting.
How could we live without art? Cooking a meal with care is art; organizing, cleaning and making my bed is art.
Art is creating beauty and order, and being open to it around us.

Morning. My mind and body (usually) are calm and refreshed, and I feel the most peaceful. And it’s a new start.
Here in Pennsylvania, this past month, I climb the hill behind the house I’m staying in, and look out over all the trees and feel grateful for the trees, the green and the natural world.

My health and wellbeing. I can climb up a hill, as i did this morning, and walk easily and freely, enjoying where I am. Right now, with friends in the backwoods of hilly Pennsylvania. Enjoying hiking on the back roads and through the woods.

Yes, to going outside, noticing and slowing down