Month: September 2015

DianaK

Appreciations 4.41

Gorgeous weather. Those blue skies! That sunshine! I love it.

Driving home around the lakes with the windows open. The water was soooo blue and the breeze was just right.

Seeing a big group of people on Segways at the lake. There was something inexplicably delightful about the sight of all those people on Segways, all smiling, laughing, taking photos and videos. They looked like they were having so much fun! 🙂

Katie’s birth day, all those many years ago. What an amazing adventure began that day! ❤ ❤ ❤ Happy birthday to my fascinating, funny, bright, beautiful, snarky, sweet kid! 😀

(And as a gift to you, Katie, I took out “smart” from that sentence since I knew it would bug you to have two alliterative couplets and one triplet. You are welcome. 😉 )

DianaK

Appreciations 4.40

I love cultivating and enjoying a brain that is easily pleased and amused! If you’ve spent any time with me, you know that things that please me tend to elicit a gleeful response. 😀 Yesterday, I was amused not only by the thing that amused me in the first place, but also by the reaction of a new acquaintance to my gleeful response. She said, “Wow! What a great response. You’re like a kid.” I agreed. Then she said, “It’s good to be like that sometimes!” I grinned and told her, “I’m like this most of the time.” So there ya go. I stand at the ready, waiting to be pleased and amused. 😉

Pretty sunshine and shadows playing across the kitchen.

Seriously crazy cats. That moon the other day has turned them into playful lunatics. Ahahaha — they’re acting just like kids. 🙂

DianaK

Appreciations 4.39

Fresh apples with cinnamon on french toast. Seasonal foods are so yummy!

Getting to sing the low low low part on Eatnemen Vuelie with my beloved Pamela and the Earthtones. You guys, it’s SO. LOW. I get to sing a low D! For a lifelong mezzo or soprano, this is a rare and wonderful opportunity. And it’s such a fun part! 😀

Lovely chat with David. We keep missing each other lately, so it was fun to catch up! ❤

DianaK

Appreciations 4.38

My Parkour kitties (Freerunner felines?) racing around the house, over, under, and through the furniture — and ME — one after the other. What funny little goofballs.

Delicious farmer’s market veggies for lunch: zucchini, squash, onions with some chicken. Yum!

Perfect night for viewing the eclipse. Pretty!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.37

autumnal tootsiesHaving the perfect amount of energy — enough to do all that I wanted to do today: decorate my tootsies for fall, get a little bit of work done, wash my hair, and still have enough energy to make it to Vicky’s lovely gathering!

The fun of meeting Pam’s enchanting family and friends – so much storytelling, smiling, and silliness! Wonderful to be among people of such great warmth, affection, humor, and heart! ❤

Swapping tattoo tales and becoming toe-ring buddies with Vicky! 😀

An incomparable evening for sitting outside on the deck — crisp, comfortable air, barely a bug to be seen, and oh, what a magnificent moon!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.36 – Feeling better and having fun

Feeling enough better today to get a little bit of work done today.

colored slippersFeeling enough better today to get some important coloring done today! (Yes, I’ve been walking around with one multi-colored slipper and one black and white slipper for all these months.) 😉

The utterly delightful language in Wodehouse’s work … biffed off (departed), bally, ranygazoo, rummy, crispish — and stinko, woozled, and awash (all meaning drunk). Lalalala. Language is so much fun. ❤

DianaK

Appreciations 4.35

The aha moment this morning when I determined the reason for yesterday’s weird nap…sometimes I get sick. Didn’t occur to me at the time. Hahaha!

Cozy day with blankets, cats, and books.

Lots and lots of sleep. 🙂

DianaK

Appreciations 4.33

Sweet, misty, sleepy morning. I like this time of changing weather!

My wonderful, inspiring clients. I was a little fuzzy today, not sure how much work I’d accomplish after another not-so-sleep-filled night, but after researching reasons that giving is good for our health for one newsletter, and reading and finding images for another truly beautiful newsletter/blog, I find I have more energy now than I did when I got up this morning.

Ellen Swanson’s energy, passion, gentleness, and wonderful work. Every single interaction I have with her makes me smile. Yes, even our business as usual emails about getting things done. I am so lucky to get to work with her. I can’t recommend her work highly enough. You can read her thoughtful and thought-provoking blog here: healingthehierarchy.com/blog/ (and you can learn about and buy her book, Heart, Gut, Head: Creating a Healthier Hierarchy.) If you like it, please share it with others. It is changing my world!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.32

The hilarity of not remembering to post my appreciations on World Gratitude Day. Hahaha! Funny. 😀

More gorgeous weather for another wonderful walk. Every time I get to be out in the sweet sunshine, I feel so happy.

The profound joy of reconnecting with and singing with my beloved Earthtones. Oh how I missed you all! And oh, how much I forgot about how funny and challenging it is to learn music in other languages. Wheeeee!

The cozy comfort of putting warm-from-the-dryer sheets onto the bed, then immediately slipping in to go to sleep. Mmmmmm.