This week, I’m grateful for many things – the excitement in the air at the bakery with all the students returning to town, delicious new jam and mustards from Patti on the shelf at Wheatberry, our new tradition at home of veggie pizza on Sundays (so good! and so easy), the chance to help a friend clear some clutter, and many wonderful moments spent with Ben and Ella.

I’ve been practicing some serious gratitude lately, as I try to when life seems overwhelming.  One of the Yoga Sutras urges us to consider the opposite of our first reaction, and I’ve found this to be extremely challenging, and extremely gratifying.  Yesterday, I really needed to get our car inspected.  My usual thought is, “Ugh, I don’t have time for this, I don’t want to do this,” etc etc.  But I stopped myself and said (mentally, in a very cheerful voice), “How delightful!  I get to have the car inspected today.  How lucky I am to have a car, and to live in a place where we inspect them for safety.”

And you know what?  It was delightful.  I walked across the street and got a cold drink, I sat and read a book, and ten minutes later, it was done.  How lucky.

May luck and gratitude find you this weekend, friends.