11/21/2014

DD

1. Black Friday purchases early on Amazon. Thanks for the gifts I can give people without feeling cheap.
2. Getting paid from Kindle from book sales
3. I have many avenues of income today, even though not a single one could pay all of my bills.
4. Time to find my center
5. Space heater
6. My black and white laserjet printer -- it's been so awesome. Definitely a good purchase.
7. Ability to count my steps through my iPhone. After all, it's on me all the time
8. Over ninety days of writing a poem each day.
9. Being able to save money to Betterment
10. Aspen
11. My kids
12. My husband, the one who has pinned down all of the enchanting pieces to my castle I call home--but who is really "home" to me.

MM

• Jackie
• Evening backgammon and fun with hubby last night.
• My best friend who helped me forget a lot, is now a stranger. It's a good thing because this best friend was a bottle of wine. I found a better substitute in real friends.
• At a time in my life when I really didn't think I was a part of anything, at the cusp of becoming a teenager as a foreigner still to the US, I deeply wanted to be so much a part of the community that when walking down the street, someone would recognize me, pull up and offer to give me a ride. Especially in the middle of winter and when I had far to go. I've had that offer come three times during the last month alone and until I thought about it, hadn't appreciated it. Now I walk for exercise or sometimes catch a free Aspen bus, have my own car if I chose to drive, and each time declined gratefully because it was my choice to be walking around in the cold. What a beautiful life it has turned out to be.

LL

• Remembering what you once dreamed of that you now have is a nice exercise. But remembering that you have always had it, is not a mere exercise. It is the key to life.