Daily Reminder # 656

Hard to believe that it is Friday again already. It has turned from Fall to Summer here. It was a nice day, though... except for the ant invasion at my desk. I burned a lot of sage and that slowed them down, though I suspect they will have returned full force in the morning. Ants are supposed to be teachers about patience in Native spiritual teachings. Sigh. I don't want to be patient. I really hope they go away. Still not a lot of birds at my back door, but the two chipmunks. I think the one above is the smaller, more genteel of the two. She eats more delicately, is a touch more jumpy and doesn't just shove the food in. She is inevitably chased away by the Scar-faced Vacuum cleaner.  We have had a very beautiful but unwelcome feline visitor the past couple of days. Gorgeous animal looking for something to kill. 

I listened to a new Healing with the Masters session... well, I sort of listened. I thought it got especially interesting about 40 minutes in. She had cancer and she talked about trying different things and what worked for her was giving it love. Something like that. I do think there is power in that... in loving your knees even when they ache. In loving - in my case - your fat cells. That's tough one for me. My mother started worrying about my weight when I was 3 months old and saw me as fat even before I fulfilled her vision of me. Life is strange. In any case, I'm going to try loving my flaws. We will see how that goes. Hmmm.

Some things I'm grateful for today: (Items in red are pre-gratitude, an exercise in embracing abundance and desires and attempting to make friends with both my own inner creative manifestor and the Creative Forces of the Universe.)

• Angel and Tara Grace 
• my little house
• my coffee maker
• coffee and Int'l Delight
• watermelon
• granola bars
• paper towels
• white sage
• matches
• open windows
• my camera
• my back yard
• the view from my front window
• birds and chipmunks and other good things
• my computer
• the internet
• email
• computer games
• my grabber
• music
• Pandora radio
• my awesome Bose speakers
• the joy of listening
• the joy of singing
• the boom box by my bed
• my mattress
• electricity
• my Tibetan salt lamps
• my rock collection
• beauty
• ice cream
• sight
• taste
• touch
• smell
• hearing
• lavender
• allspice
• the ability to read and write
• the ability to type
• Healing with the Masters
• care2.com
• thehungersite.com
• reiki
• angels
• miracles
• my reiki bear Raphael
• Jasmine Jaguar (reiki jaguar)
• my chair/walker
• my cane
• that my legs still wobble me around with help
• coconut oil
• Sam-e
• Omega-3
• IP-6
• Vitamin D-3
• a clothes dryer
• winning lottery numbers
• a sun room on the back of the house
• Nintendo
• freshly painted living and bedroom walls
• $5,000/week for life from PCH - or a million a year
• a paid off mortgage
• zero balance on my credit cards
• lower interest rates
• more paying reiki clients
• a new (Dutch) front door
• new curtains
• blinds for the front window
• company/companionship
• one or more whistling vessel gatherings
• more flowers/landscaping in the back yard
• a reading and healing with Nancy DuTetrre
• a truckload of money (big bills)
• a birthday party for my 65th birthday with all the people I love
• a mattress for the guest bedroom
• a ceiling fan in the bedroom
• seeing the red list turn to black
• abundant water for bathing and drinking
• ants (well, not really, but I'm hoping that if I express gratitude for them they will go away...??)
• words
• literature
• poetry
• wordzzles (even though I haven't done them yet)
• the colors of the rainbow
• imagination
• inspiration
• breath
• my body
• my hair clip
• the telephone
• indoor plumbing
• Dr. Bronner soaps
• Dr. Ihhiru Probiotic soap
• my TV
• the remote control
• the mute button
• the Sci-Fi channel
• PBS
• Netflix
• my refrigerator
• my microwave
• the US mail
• Janet, the mail carrier
• my friends
• my neighbors
• my nieces, my nephew and their families
• that they are happy, healthy and successful
• my shop vac
• Crocs
• my new toothbrush
• Listerine
• my teeth
• food
• tastebuds
• determination
• resilience
• hope
• possibilities
• all the things I'm forgetting
• love
• laughter
• life

MAY YOUR DAY BE RICH IN LOVE

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