Grateful Category
‘To My Dear and Loving Husband’
Posted on April 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
This week I heard about a mid-seventeenth century poet called Ann Bradstreet. Ann lived in the new world (now the United States of America) and was the first, not just woman but person, to have a book of poems published there. In her book was a poem entitled ‘To my Dear and Loving Husband’. If […]
Horrified!
Posted on April 5, 2022 Leave a Comment
Yep, I was horrified when I looked back to see when my last blog post was. September 2021! Eeekkk! 6 months! Scary to see how much time has flown by. Our world has been in a state of flux for some of that time with two kids coming home unexpectedly for a while between their […]
Abundance
Posted on September 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
Abundance is “an amount that is more than enough” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. Enough is ” as much as is necessary; in the amount or to the degree needed’. Wikipedia joins in and says that need is ‘something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants’. […]
Joyful in Sorrow
Posted on September 1, 2021 1 Comment
While chatting she asked the question, ‘Can you be both sad and grateful at the same time?’.It’s been percolating on the back burner ever since. Can I be sad and grateful together? Can I be joyful in sorrow? They seem diametrically opposed, but are they? Once upon a time I would have said a definite […]
Just in Time
Posted on August 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
Yep, we were definitely just in time! Just in time for our trip to Auckland to spend time with our kids before the country goes back into lockdown. Being grateful for things working out well… that hubby and I didn’t end up separated in different parts of the country, that we had this time together […]
What a Glorious Time Pt.3
Posted on August 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
Monday came up gray and cold. I guess it is winter after all. A very bitter southerly straight from Antartica. The locals were saying they had never seen it so cold. BUT, I had a dream and the show must go on. Surely us Tauponians could handle this?! I say ‘us’ because two painting buddies […]
What a Glorious Time Pt.2
Posted on August 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
The storm has passed and we are back at Thornton Beach. We’d packed up the day before so that we could leave early and get straight into it, but on arrival I had such a severe case of the munchies that, while my darling unpacked, I had the cooker out and cooked us up a […]
The Gardener
Posted on June 22, 2021 Leave a Comment
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922) French novelist I hear him say he’d like to have a vege garden one day, but I don’t think he considers himself a gardener at the moment. I smile […]
A Token Gesture
Posted on June 15, 2021 Leave a Comment
For all the comings and goings of the last couple of months, I have continued with my daily grateful drawings. Perhaps not every day, so a little catchup had to be played along the way. In hind sight I wonder if my mental health might have survived even better if I had been more diligent […]
Contemplating Gratefulness
Posted on April 14, 2021 Leave a Comment
I met Aya Kowata in a group chat with fellow artists from Created to Thrive Mentoring Group. As we have both spent time in each other’s native country I was interested to get to know her story a little more. She has graciously written today’s post which I am incredibly grateful for, because due to […]
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