I appreciate:

• Coloring eggs with the family. Why don’t we do this every month!? 
• Dinner with Mom & Dad & the fam. What a nice, relaxing time. 
• Going for a walk today and seeing the first crocus of the season!!!! Hooray!

I appreciate:

• Sarah, for playing make-believe with me this morning. That show was SO. MUCH. FUN! Like Lauren says, the best improv is easy, fun, and could go on forever! Love love loved our set this morning. 
• Amy, for asking Sarah and me to play for her class today. Thank you for the chance to try out this form! We loved it!!
• Jill, for the idea for this form. We are loving it in so many ways and are so excited for the ways we’re seeing it grow!!

I appreciate:

• Facebook’s online communities for connecting me to amazing people I’d never have met any other way. 
• The wonderful people I’ve gotten to know through Facebook groups like Scramble and Bitwordy. You know who you are! 
• Looking forward to fun things like coffee with Jody, 8 improv shows in the next 8 weeks (details and invites coming this weekend), warmer weather, coloring eggs, working in the garden, getting back to work on the book. So many good things that so often outnumber my challenges. How lucky I am!

I appreciate:

• JimmyD’s class. Good people, good improv, good stuff. So. Much. Fun! 
• Going to sleep really, really happy – and waking up after a silly, super fun dream in which I write and perform all the voices for a live broadcast of a Futurama + Sponge Bob type of show, lose the script, but easily improvise the show and manage to incorporate the opera singer and her children who mysteriously show up in the recording room which looks more like a therapists office…
• Remembering to really bask in good feelings whenever I can.

I appreciate:

• The ability to perceive things. I mean, really, it is so cool to see, smell, touch, taste, feel, and, well, sense things. 
• Commas! (See previous sentence.) 
• Hot tea on a cold and snowy, um, April morning.

I appreciate:

• The sound of Luna purring. What big, contented sound from my tiny little cat. 
• Days that begin with good news and uplifting videos and articles. 
• That space where sunshine filtering in makes me believe it’s warm – before I’ve gone outside to learn otherwise. 
• Also – I forgot, but all day yesterday I was loving writing the date 4/14/14. Every time I wrote it I said it in my head: Four, one-four, one-four. Then I grinned because that’s how I roll.

I appreciate:

• Seeing tremendously satisfying improv at IAGG. Brilliant work, Hannah & MJ, Becky, Seniz, and Daniel, and you first two groups! 
• Seeing the aforementioned brilliant improv with my girls Amy, Kathleen, and Pat AND the excellent post-show Herk excursion. 
• This video and David for being sure I saw it.

I appreciate:

• Brene Brown
• Empathy 
• Charming videos
• I also appreciate spending the WHOLE DAY with Katie and Ruby yesterday – and the fact that we got to spend about 4 hours drawing and coloring. What a perfect day!

I appreciate:

• Rain. 
• A sweet and slow Saturday morning with Katie and Ruby. 
• Multicolored horses (blue and pink and green and purple and brown).

I appreciate:

• Stripey socks. 
• Spending the afternoon with Katie and Ruby. 
• Thoughts of gardening!