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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 A perfect autumn day with clear blue skies, turning leaves, a chill in the air. 🌺 Chatting outside in the courtyard with a new neighbor while #SunshineSadie kept her focus on the local squirrel population. Realizing we've had a lot of similar life experiences and a lot of very very dissimilar ones, and even so we might be becoming friends. 🌺 I'm starting to get a handle on the potential in this food allergy situation. #3GoodThings #ThreeGo...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 A call and response chorus at dawn this morning between the over-flying geese and the rattled crows. 🌺 I arranged for a new housekeeper who can be here in the afternoons and not early morning. 🌺 A bunch of easy mini-conversations with neighbours who don't make me want to pull my hair out. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 I had my mini split HVAC system cleaned today and wow does it make a difference! 🌺 A neighbor is back home from her four-day stay in the hospital (anemia) and she was finally willing to reach out and ask for a ride to a doctor appointment next Monday. I'm happy to be able to help. 🌺 Bone broth and rice vermicelli. Starting simple and figuring it out as I go. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 My Social Security was deposited today (given the current administration, I wonder every single month) 🌺 Rice and beans 🌺 Neighbours gathering together to hold the local college accountable #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 Right outside my back door, on any day, I might see deer, fox, bobcats, and yes even bears. 🌺 My friends are on their way back from their cross-country trip, just in time for them to take #SunshineSadie overnight while I go in for an early morning medical test next week. 🌺 Learning to be comfortable saying: no, I'm really not up for that today. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 My friend felt safe enough to spend a few hours with me today to grieve and weep and remember the beauty and goodness of her son's life. 🌺 A colorful sunset spreading across the northwest skies 🌺 Ben & Jerry's coffee toffee crunch ice cream #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 My new gastro doctor was very good today, he listened, didn't harass me about my decisions refusing all invasive procedures, and had some good recommendations. We'll talk again after my results come back. 🌺 Even though the phlebotomist couldn't get blood from my usually excellent vein, she did it quickly and easily in the other arm and there are no bruises. She was very kind about my anxiety. 🌺 The almost full moon in a clear twilight s...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 My warm fleece robe on a chilly evening. 🌺 Stating a clear boundary with a neighbor to stop knocking on my door for inane reasons. 🌺 Weekly laundry service from the county elder program. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 I made brownie cake in my bread maker and it is 🧑‍🍳😘 🌺 A peaceful day reading and daydreaming 🌺 A mist-filled rainy evening walk #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 My neighbour who has been tippling a little too much was in better shape today. 🥃 🌺 I don't have Covid! So it's just probably one of the little viral infections running around. 🤧 🌺 I made bread! In my new bread maker. I love all the unexpected possibilities - cakes and sweet breads and jam + any kind of bread whenever I want! Today I made a rustic Italian with asiago cheese and kalamata olives. 😋 Bonus - academia edition: as we were drivin...

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  Three things I am grateful for today: 🌺 Wind sweeping fallen autumn leaves from the bridge into the swiftly flowing river waters below. 🌺 Chinese takeout for those days when I just can't get it together to cook. 🌺 My extremely silly #SunshineSadie. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Some days are much heavier than others - gratitde doesn't always ease it but can offer a broader perspective . Here are three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 Today is the eighth yahrzeit of my mother's sister, Audrey. She had a very difficult life healthwise, relationshipwise, and financially. She had a big heart, she raised three amazing humans, and did her best not to allow her disabilities to stop her. 🌺 Today is also the one year anniversary of my friend's father's d...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 the writing of Annie Dillard (RIP) 🌺 the art of Peter Max (RIP) 🌺 the generosity of Macklemore #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Amazon’s announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever. #uspol #amazon #aws #iran

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 very misty, very chilly morning - makes it worthwhile being woken at 6am 🌺 triple pane windows ftw (can't hear the college soccer game on the athletic fields below my building) 🌺 a neighbor who passed out in the grocery store recently and was in the hospital for three days is now home and beginning to recover her strength. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 After forgetting to close my car windows during a night and a morning of heavy rain, I opened the car windows this morning early after a second night of rain - the sunshine and wind dried it out completely. 🌺 Slowly learning, with unexpected mistakes, which foods and meds help me keep my blood glucose stable. 🌺 Even though I slept poorly last night, I did not feel horrible today. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 I had some realizations about autism and hypersensitivity and trauma and ways to work with that for myself. 🌺 I had a good conversation with a neighbour today about the difference between being Jewish and being a Jew for Jesus (messianic Christian). My neighbour was quite surprised. 🌺 Today is Rosh HaShanah, translated as "the head of the year". While I'm no longer a practising Jew, it is part of my personal past and my family heritag...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 My 80+ year old neighbours in their matching red helmets and black leather jackets zooming off into the day on their beloved motorcycle. 🌺 My breadmaker arrived today so tomorrow begins the bakering experiments 🌺 Flickering leaves - green to olive and back to green - in the high winds against the pale blue sky. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  @mcnado@mstdn.social alas, it is not a joke @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 Our maintenance guy replaced the flickering lightbulbs in my overhead kitchen light. We don't see him much anymore because of some financial mismanagement on the part of the company that owns our building. Instead of covering one building he now covers a plethora. He's super mellow and competent and I appreciate him. 🌺 I got a new copy of the Tassajara Bread Book - I loaned my old copy out years ago, if not decades. When my daughter was youn...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 The crunch and shush of fallen leaves under my feet. 🌺 A new (to me) kind of caterpillar scrunching across the walking trail. 🌺 All three people in my building who were taken by ambulance to the hospital in the past week are back home now. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 Enormous, heavy, dark clouds sailing ponderously into the east leaving behind fragments of blue sky in their wake. 🌺 #SunshineSadie's clear delight in running about sniffing every nook and cranny on our walk this morning - every day is filled with new scents. 🌺 I baked a cake! First time in years. (It was awful but that's okay - I think it's the antibiotics messing with my taste buds - even the local farm's lettuce tastes weird)....

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 Vaccines. Today I got my pneumonia vaccine, finally. I love my pharmacist, he must be AuDHD and always describes the vaccine and all it's intricate workings to me in great detail. We have fun. 🌺 My hairdresser. She gets to tell me all about her sons who are in college and her new grandson and I get my hair cut super short. I'm not sure if I'll ever grow my hair out long again. 🌺 A cool shower at the end of a hot sticky day. #3GoodThing...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 I paid all my bills including a few extras - and I have enough for the rest of the month. This experience of 'enough' hasn't always been true for me. I don't know the source of this quote other than Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books ~ but ~ "enough is as good as a feast." 🌺 I'll be generous and say that I misunderstood the dermatologist's PA and that it's not skin cancer. My NP and I came up with a good trea...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 The green mountains peeking through layers of mist on this rainy morning. 🌺 My physical therapist who discovered new and excruciating points of pain on my spine and neck that feel much better in the aftermath. 🌺 A long, rambling conversation in the lobby of our building with one of my much elder neighbors - he's not someone I would ever have expected to enjoy his company so much. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 I woke up feeling much much much better than yesterday and no strange fever dreams. 🌺 I changed out my summer blanket for my winter comforter 🩶 🌺 My good friend M and I had a great, far ranging 2.5 hour conversation this evening. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 My neighbor told me that I am a good friend to the people in the building because I listen to them and am helpful. 🌺 I used to joke that I had a brown thumb with houseplants but I am amazed at how lush and beautiful all my houseplants are. 🌺 Watching little #SunshineSadie sleeping with loose-limbed abandon. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 When I moved the furniture and area rugs around yesterday, I made sure there was plenty of rug space in back of my recliner in the bedroom so that when Sadie is frightened she can go hide in a comfortable place. 🌺 There's an amazing thunderstorm moving in through right now. I love thunderstorms, the way the rumbles echo back-and-forth across the valley. Sadie does not love thunderstorms and so she is now hiding in back of my chair in a very comf...

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 🌺 Watching the rain moving down from the Vermont mountains; listening as it moved towards us over the fields and trees. 🌺 Yummy leftovers of rice and black beans and zucchini and summer squash. 🌺 Dolly Parton and all the good she did in the world, she was a bright light. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

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  Three things that I am grateful for today: 😊 The sounds of a steady rain on the leaves of almost-autumn trees. 😊 Vegetable juice instead of plain tomato juice, the celery really brightens it up. 😊 I did not use my walking stick on our late morning or our late afternoon walks and I did just fine without it. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude