Each morning for a week, write down three things for which you are grateful. At the end of the week, do something big or small in support of at least one of the things for which you were/are grateful.
Why? Because gratitude and making your ideas your ideals are fundamental for any process of initiation, and a hero’s adventure is the most funtacular process of initiation.
This morning, January 13, 2013, a group of seven of us (Megan is not in the photo because she took it; Miles refused to be in it because he’s in a kindergarten phase) went out to Oak Grove and surrounds on the American River Parkway to pick up trash — thankfully, there wasn’t much. It was cold, but beautiful and we had a great time! Mission #3 complete! Those in the photo from left to right: Stasia, Manny, Andrew, Lily, & Rosa
An action shot!
Our motto for the day!
On my second day (January 5) of writing three things for which I was grateful, “sauntering out to the Oak Grove with mugwort leaf scrolls up my nose” was #2. It was for this reason that I organized the trash pick-up in the Oak Grove.
I have completed my week of gratitudes: day 1: my wife and girls, anthroposophy, light; day 2: my life, the girls’ lives, my mentor; day 3: music, best friends from earlier and later in life, important teachers I’ve met; day 4: important teachers I’ve read, my companies (Magenta and Reos), my parents; day 5: nature and weather, the manifest intelligence that shapes nature, trees; day 6: differing skin colors, art and culture of all kinds, rhythm; day 7: the possibility of self-transformation, memory, silence. Now I will think of something that I will do in support of at least one of these things. More soon!
day 1: my new organic bed, day without kids who are back at school, my bathrobe. Day 2: Steiner, Klocek, and the clear sky (no mold growth today). Day 3: Steiner, Klocek – again, my very soft and lovely bed. Day 4: my children, my husband, and our various loving and sweet pets. Day 5: my children, my husband, so much love everywhere. Day 6: my morning cup of tea, my husband and my children. I do tend to be repetitive. Day 7: Steiner and his teaching me how to separate out the essential from the inessential; my recent completion of knowledge of higher worlds and the profound but subtle shifts within – man am I grateful! and my family. The mission I need to do: read more steiner and make rough draft for a course for my clients who need more support and help than coaching can give.
Gradtitude Mission Day 1: Powerfully grateful for daily morning walks along the America River, is all seasons. Beautiful to greet the day in silence, each and every day. Grateful for sunrises. This season, grateful for the cold frosty mornings, causing the soil to open up so it will be beautifully aerated in the spring, and the harmful pests will be eliminated in this cold.
Mission3, day2. Today I feasted my heart by celebrating the joy of life with those I love. I am grateful for my husband, patient, kind and utterly committed to his work and our life together. I am grateful that my daughter chose us to be her parents. (!) And I am grateful for a whole circle of profound friends who share dreams, wisdom and vision with me as we walk this journey together.
ps. not grateful that the website flipped my whole family on its head in the picture above!
Mission3,Day 3. I am grateful for my daughter returning lovely and light from a trip that made her glad. I am grateful for the Yippies that pass through our home, filling it with great energy! And lastly, for my comic effect, I am grateful that kitty litter clumps: how magical!
Mission3,Day3: Today I glowed with gratitude that mirrored the glow of the sunshine lighting up the trees at sunrise. I give thanks for the machine-beings that powered my drive up the mountain in my car. And for the silky black body fur of my beautiful black lab.!
Good books, great coffee, and wise friends!
Day 6: Sweet rain. A dear friend Adrienne, sister soul. And of course the Brazilian connection: Edgard.
Day 1: The birds at the feeder out my window, my relationship to plants, awareness of inner life.
Day 2: My girl Lucia, my beautiful wife, good food.
Day 3: My education & upbringing, books, well made tea.
Day 4: the ability to change, coming spring, conversation
Thanksgiving Day 1: Generous people, groups that come together out of freedom, my partner in life.
I decided to connect myself to some initiatives that I believe in by “putting my money where my heart is.” It was a small gesture but I think it is important to do what I can. Here is the site for becoming a friend of the Youth Initiative Program: http://yip.se/donate/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/contribute/transact&reset=1&id=6
my gratitude
my action was to set the habit of sleeping from 8:30pm-5:30am every night, and to set my meditation rhythms around that. i think thats pretty much the hugest thing ive ever done for myself.
This Year, one of my many New Years Resolution has been to share Gratitude everyday and sit in that place of gratefulness. Journaled, they are as follows
January 1 2019: 1) The Wooden Bowl my father gave me. 2) The Wood spoons I made. 3) And further, eating a breakfast that has been Zero Waste
January 2 2019: 1) The Heroes of Permaculture Food Forests and their YouTube channels. 2) Contacting Community Garden plots 3) Starting my own Food Forest to practice better ideals
January 3 2019: 1) Public Land for making Land Art 2) Scotland for giving me the bravery to roam 3) Planning my upcoming trip back to Scotland to make Land Art
January 4 2019: 1) Small Scale Butchers 2) Small Scale Dairies 3) Only choosing animals who were allowed free range lives or free entirley
January 5 2019: 1) Moments of Reflection alone 2) Sharing reflections with friends 3) Learning to laugh at my own reflections
January 6 2019: 1) Finally having our own space to call home 2) Having a home away from home 3) Knowing the difference
January 7 2019: Day 1) Time spent gazing upon Landscapes 2) Making time to study them 3) Adventuring in them
In support of my Day 7 Gratitude I painted from a memory of my adventures across the landscapes of the Swiss Alps and submit it here…