I appreciate:

• The perfectly perfect weather for walking.
• Another amazing workshop at TCIF today, this one with Stephen Kearin.
• Sitting with friends and fellow improvisers listening to Jill Bernard & David Razowskys podcast. What an improvalicous weekend!

I appreciate:

• That I am learning gentleness in the face of mistakes.
• The delicious sting of slightly-too-hot to drink coffee full of promise for the soon-to-be-perfect temperature coffee.
• Minneapolis in the summer.  Everything about it.

I appreciate:

• My own sense of optimism about my ability to study up past 2am & still do stuff the next morning. This morning it is making me laugh & laugh!
• The amazing performances at TCIF that made staying out that late totally worth it! ‎#ilovefoterson
• The delicious smell of summer today. ‎#ilovempls

I appreciate:

• The little 59¢ silver frame I got at Value Village and is now sitting on my desk with a photo of my favorite little one.
• The chance to hang out with my mom and Katie later today. We’re doing a sewing project. (We’ll see if the results make tomorrow’s appreciations… and if my mom and Katie are still talking to me! Sewing and I don’t always get along…)
• Knowing:

1. I don’t have to be a victim of my mood – I can choose better-feeling thoughts.
2. Writing these appreciations is helping me focus more positively — and (most importantly) —
3. As soon as I’m done with this I can take myself for a walk to Royal Grounds Coffee and get a yummy coffee.

I appreciate:

• The brilliant improv community here and the most excellent first night of TCIF. What a fabulous show!
• Having sunny, but slightly cooler weather for my golf game with my dad this morning. 🙂
• The beautiful roses outside T & E’s place. What a beautiful mass of color!

I appreciate:

• Katie and all the other brave 101 improvisers for having the courage to get up there and do it. What a great show!
• My dad, for helping us with our internet connectivity problem. (Uh, plug in the hub…)
• Ruby for all her wonderfulness, including saying things like, “My feet are stuck to me. My feet are made of me.”

I appreciate:

• Your tolerance of my frequent after-the-fact posting of appreciations.
• The thrill of learning that someone unexpected reads these posts — and that my little gratitude practice has a positive effect on others. Fun!
• Bubbles. I WILL learn to blow the bubble within the bubble. Curse you, Dan Linden, for making it look so easy, though!

I appreciate:

• Our weigela. We thought it might have died, but here it is!
• LunaKitty, acting like a kitten, chasing her crinkly toy all over the house. Silly girl!
• The yummy food and gluten-free options at French Meadow Bakery & Café!

I appreciate:

• That I can spend the entire day at a family reunion and encounter only interesting, funny, lovely people!
• Getting to meet some of my cousins (I have 25) for the first time ever.
• Catching up with my cousins – some for the first time in more than 10 years.
• My Dad, for coming up with the idea for the reunion, all the people who travelled so far to be there, and everyone who pitched in to make it a memorable day!

I appreciate:

• The workers who worked through the night to restore power.  Ours came back on after 6 this morning.
• That those trees didn’t hit either house.  So glad the wind came from the west!
• Today’s family reunion.  I’ll meet cousins I’ve never met and see people I haven’t seen in 10 or 20 years.  Should be fun!