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Day six of our journey through gratitude!

Be grateful for your body each day. It’s the one and only vessel which holds “you” throughout your life. It does the best it can. Tend to it.

Do gentle head circles. Imagine a golden halo is floating over your head. Slowly trace it three times clockwise. Then trace it three times counter-clockwise.

What are you grateful for today?

Today I'm grateful for rain. I know some people are disappointed that it's going to be rainy on Saturday, but it makes my life SO SO SO much easier. I'll be running two separate tents at the Sutton Art Festival. There's one for the Blackstone Valley Art Association and then one for the Sutton Writing Group.

I was planning to lug two sets of tables, two sets of chairs, two sets of tents, plus all the bins, prints, cards, books, and so on. I wasn't sure how this would even fit into my car.

But now that it's rainy, the festival will be in the local church. They will have all the tables and chairs set up for us. No tents needed. Life gets incredibly easy! I just bring the art, the origami, my cyanotypes, and some books. Voila!

If you're local, come on out to visit the festival and support local artists!

It’s Day Eight of being grateful! Join us! Today is about appreciating our ears. Find music you adore and listen to a song or two.

What brings you joy?

And what are you grateful for today?

Today I'm grateful for music! Bob's band played a benefit and I got to enjoy their songs. I'm so lucky to be able to hear them play fairly often. Live music is wonderful 　. They're playing every weekend for the entire month, hurrah!

It's Day Nine of our Gratitude project! What are you grateful for today? Do a mindful eating experience. Think about all the people who helped your item reach you, from start to end. We live in an interconnected web of society! We all help each other.

LOL see this shows how mindfulness is important in our daily lives. I thought, well, I'm drinking herbal tea. I don't know anything about where this tea comes from! This will be fun! And then I looked at my tea tag and it says:

Stash - orange spice black tea

AAAaaaaa I'm drinking one of Bob's caffeine-full teas by accident! I'll never get to sleep!!!!

I went to their website and all they say is: "We scour the earth to find the best quality ingredients for our teas!" - that's incredibly unhelpful! Surely they could say something a little more informative than that?

Well, I suppose, mindfully, I am grateful for "people on the Earth" for growing my tea, and then transporting it to somewhere else on the Earth, maybe in a boat, or maybe on a train, to then get to my local store, where friendly store-people talk to Bob See (because he does all the shopping) and he brings it home to me, where I accidentally drink it 　.

We're in double digits! Hurrah! Day 10! What are you grateful for today? Add something growing into your life. Plant a seed or two. Get a live flower. How about an artificial flower to represent growth? An image of a flower? Find something to remind you to keep stretching.

Our kitchen window is growing yet more children from my sister Thamzen's wedding plant. I've given children of these out to all sorts of family members, and the plants just keep growing. We'll see if I can get some to the triplets and Artem next ... it makes me happy to keep spreading these around :).

Today I am grateful I work for myself from home. When I woke up I met with an author to help him with his wonderful self-help books, which inspire countless people to better their lives. Then I attended a ValleyCast meeting which strives to help those with challenges and those of the “standard community” to interact and learn from each other. Then I ran one of my free seminars on how to write a book and get published. It was a full day of education, learning, and community growth!

Day 12 of our Gratitude project! Join us! What are you grateful for today?

Today we brainstorm our vision statement with its priorities. Priorities are your life-long general aims. These would be things like:
* be healthy
* be serene
* be organized
* help others
* constantly learn

Priorities are phrased in the “I am now doing this” tense.
Priorities are large, all-encompassing areas of life. Specific tasks like “be 130 pounds” come later in your goals. That would be in service of the priority of “be healthy”.