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#5JoysFriday
1) watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony with my husband & son 🏆
2)Train to Yankee Stadium - pictures from the game 🏟️⚾️
3) coffee with an ex-student & friend ☕️👱🏻
4) flower/river walk🌼🌸🏞️
5) always coffee!!! ☕️

#5JoysFriday
Left to right:
1) chicken annual bake-off with our football club #hcfc #agentsofhale always a blast! 🐓🍗
2)coffee)!!!!☕️
3)my weed/ perennial garden 🌱🌻👩🏻‍🌾
4,5) our day date- a scenic drive to Amherst MA to see the movie Janet Planet, walk the town & visit Amherst Books. 🩷🎥🍿📚

Misty! What a totally unexpected, and most pleasant surprise!! I'm speechless with gratitude ☺️
Thank you, thank you, thank you💕 I'm looking forward to reading this!

Unexpected #BookMail is definitely the best kind of mail ever 😊

#Midwintersolace

As we close in on the last day of January, I would like to say a massive heart-felt thank you to you all for taking this event to your hearts. It has been so lovely, reading your posts, seeing how you're celebrating hygge and supporting each other.
I never imagined that such a simple idea would connect so many of us.
Don't worry, it doesn't stop here. We will be checking in with you throughout the year with more events.
Cont. ⬇️

Grateful for y‘all Littens, especially leaders who coordinate events like Scarathlon, buddy reads & book swaps. A lovely bookish community. Happy Thanksgiving! #grateful

1. My daughter has beautiful weather this week for camp
2. Gorgeous blue skies
3. Getting together with family this Thanksgiving

Tagging anyone who would like to play! ❤️ #WondrousWednesday

I just want to take time out & thank the organizers of #winterreadathon for all the effort, creativity, & time they put in for us on Litsy. I felt such delight when I read others posting, & shared my own. Of course there was also the benefit of so many new books discovered! 🤗🥰

"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

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On this day, #nationalthankyounoteday, I am ever thankful for my family: siblings(7) in laws (7),nieces & nephews(9) their partners/husbands/wives (5).And of course, my Frank & Robert.Not all are pictured, but all are loved.
Also, my work peeps & students I am forever grateful for- a thank you note to them!
To my friends, my Litten friends- thank u for adding light to my life. 💕💕💕 #winterreadathon #Dec262022 #winterreadathondailychallenge

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I have so much to be grateful for:
Sunny day
Family
Friends
Work family
Dinner
Relaxing day; still in pjs
Litsy family
Books…

My youngest brother sent me this blessing. 🍀🍀🇮🇪

I am grateful for everything in this picture- my couch, my pillows, my fleece blanket, my book, my precious Em & Poe. #gratitude

We had a family reunion with extended family from both my mom‘s & dad‘s sides of the family. One of my cousins had this picture that is the only one we know of of my mother‘s mother. She died before any of my mom‘s children were born. From left to right: my grandad( my mom‘s dad), my Great Aunt Agnes(mom‘s aunt), my grandmother( my mom‘s mom), & my mom on the floor. I am si grateful for this photo! #gratitude

#gratitude
Today I am grateful for the High School & district I work in. Love the staff & students. This photo was taken by a student for his photography class.

#gratitude #gratefulfornature
Although the river is incredibly low right now(usually this stone slab is coveted with water), I am grateful for its sound of rushing water & the birds, ducks, herons, geese, & fish I see when I walk by & peer over the bridge.

#gratitude
I woke at 5 a.m this morning, catching the very beginning of sunrise. View from the right side of my house.No one else was awake. It was so quiet & peaceful.

My son made us fresh tomato, mozzarella, and basil in olive oil last night. Fabulous! So grateful. #gratitude

Our kitties (Poe & Emmy) bring us so much joy. They are our “dog-cats” because they follow us everywhere in the house & run to the door when we come home.
#gratitude

#gratitude
I am grateful every day for my 7 amazing siblings (1 is in photo held by a brother)- my parents did something right because we all get along famously.

I am so grateful for the haven of my porch and garden today.
#gratitude @Eggs

5⭐️ I read this tiny book for the first time in 2016. I listened to the audiobook today, and it comforted my muddy mind. I love Oliver Sacks. I find him a fascinating character, and he was a person who lived life to the fullest

For what are you grateful today?

I am grateful for one of the loveliest Aprils on record here in Texas🌿🌸🍃🌺

#grateful @Eggs

Dad is quite well, but he is an octogenarian and he frequently likes to remind me of that fact. Mom died nine years ago and we miss her everyday. Many of Dad‘s friends are frail, ill, or already gone. He gifted me this book because the essays are a beautiful mediation on the beautiful adventures of life, but I can‘t help but to search for messages and meanings that Dad cannot say himself.

Brilliant neurologist Oliver Sacks last reflections on his life and ideas of the meaning behind it written during his final months of terminal illness. It is all you wouldn‘t expect- beautiful, hopeful and life altering.

OMG OMG @Soubhiville !!!! I just checked the box of “cards” that was not a box of cards after all LOL, after I saw your comments, and I am BLOWN away by this gorgeous stained glass book!!! It‘s such a luminous work of art and it will bring me infinite cheer! Thank you!! Did you say you made this?! WOWWW. I can‘t wait to find the perfect spot to hang it in my window!! Thank you again SO much and Happy New Year! 😱❤️❤️❤️🥳📚🌟#bestof2020 @candority

I am jumping in on #Day2

My positive: helping 2 of my students with emotional needs- really connecting on a deep level. Such joy. 😃 moments that remind me that what we do as teachers does matter. With the world crazy with So many problems, small moments matter, affirming that what we do matters to those we serve.
#kindnessandpositivityweek #sharethelove #kindnessmatters

#30daysofgratitude #gratitude
Three things I am grateful for today:
1)Long hour + phone “visit” with close friend 📱❤️❤️
2) my kitties‘ love & snuggles😻😻
3) started buddy read with my son. 💕📚

#WordsOfOctober Day 23: I am #grateful that another work week has passed. Thursday is our Friday. I am #grateful to have successfully organized this virtual get together with our graduate students and our hardworking faculty members. There are around 200 of them but only 70 showed up. Manually assigning each one to their zoom rooms and visiting each zoom room to check out whether everything was going well was craycray, but worth it. 💕

One my fav authors of all the time 💐🥰📖

#thankful #wordsofoctober

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who is doing the responsible thing & walking the walk of supporting your community by wearing a mask, truly social distancing, isolating when sick, and staying home when you can afford it. It‘s hot. We‘re all stir crazy. Thank you so much, vigilant & caring folks! #respect #caring #GoldenRule #COVID19

#marvelousMay #gratitude #day4 #keeplitsypositive #catsoflitsy #lifeofPoe
It was warm enough to open the bathroom window today- look who took it over?

Short and powerful essays reflecting on life, meaning, relationships, and being grateful. Well worth the time invested to savor these words.

#graditude #Thanksgiving #family
#neighbors #rituals #reunion
After a nap we went across the street to our neighbors, (another tradition)for dessert. Anyone in the neighborhood is welcome-we all come baring desserts. Three of my son‘s former babysitters are always there,now with their own children. We are forever grateful for our friends & neighbors who helped bring up Robert. A Thanksgiving ritual, a reunion.

#GratefulReads #November #Memoir
So many great memoirs! Here‘s a few I loved.

#Iamthankfulfor #gratitude #thankful
So much in my life to be #thankful for: the beach, my son, Em & Poe, birds singing in trees in winter, Litsy & Littens.❤️
And how could I forget 📚!

#NamasteNovember #GratefulFor #Day2
Forever grateful for the making of memories while hiking, walking, dwelling in nature together as a family. Always grateful for my men. ❤️

#SelfImprovementSept - Gratitude: Motherhood has taught me the true definition of gratitude. For him I exist in a constant state of appreciation and I am filled with an endless desire to return kindness, consideration and thoughtfulness. He has humbled me. He has grown me. He has taught me. He has strengthened me. He has given a child‘s pure and innocent love to me. Gratitude emanates from every part of me because of him!

#gratitude #selfimprovement @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

In a series of essays written in anticipation of his death, Oliver Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end.

#Gratitude #SoulSeptember
@Eggs

Maybe I am just too tired but this didn‘t grab me the way I thought it would. Loved his Musicophilia book.

Thank you @Clwojick ; you are a rockstar. You killed it in the #litsywalkathon, you're a great motivator in #bfcr2 , and you still have time to send the cutest bookmail. How cute are these book marks?

Thank you so much, @nelehelen ! I can hardly wait to open this. 💜💜💜 #SecretSantaGoesPostal

What a beautiful #audiobook! Oliver Sacks shares his thoughts as he faces terminal illness. Rather than focusing on illness, he reflects on what makes life good and expresses deep gratitude for the lessons and opportunities he has experienced in his 82 years on earth. This slim, beautiful volume is well worth a read or listen.

#grateful21 #Day21

- that first cup of morning coffee☕️
- co-teaching with a fabulous English teacher💕
- our magnolia tree‘s wide open blossoms

#gratitude21 @Eggs

1. I've found the photo challenge I'm taking part in for May on here.
2. I know what the tag is and what the trim the tbr number is for a group on Goodreads I'm member of.
3. BOOKS!!!

#gratitude21 #Day20
- late afternoon HS softball game in the sunshine
- raspberries
- quiet of the night

#gratitude21 @Eggs

1. Supported my local independent bookshop
2. Finished the cue cards for #litsylove etc
3. Got a few extra bits for swaps!