Joy List Monday

I've been doing a lot of writing lately. For some projects. In my journal. Emails. And it feels as if I don't have any words leftover. I certainly don't feel like I have any words of wisdom to add to the conversations going on lately.

But I do have a reminder of joy. Joy, just joy (and love and hope and gratitude...).

Joy List Monday: 

a weekly ritual

a reminder to stop and pay attention to the little beauties and graces that make life magical and to set aside time for gratitude each day

I hope you'll be inspired to write your own Joy List.

Here's mine:

• Some good news (the kind you just can't quite believe that makes you want to jump up and down).
• The first ripe tomatoes of the summer.
• Perfect weather.
• Making spaghetti sauce with herbs from the garden, various leftovers from the freezer and a can of crushed tomatoes while drinking wine and listening to music. And then being able to eat a spaghetti dinner with Matthias in the dining room.
• Regular hummingbird visitors, finally.
• Painting.
• Notes from friends.
• Thunderstorms with soft rain.
• Dog snuggles.
• Chocolate.
• The sunflower plants in my garden growing taller and taller.
• Heather Ross's memoir, How to Catch a Frog
• Sketching in the garden.
• Portulaca flowers in every color of the rainbow (almost).
• Fireflies, bats and a perfect crescent moon.

I hope your week is filled with many little joys.