Appreciations Year 1

DianaK

Year 1, Day 95: stealing thanks

Borrowing (stealing) the perfect facebook status update from my dear friend Timmy:

  • Thanks Thanksgiving, for providing a willing confederation of grateful people.
  • Thanks gratefulness, for making my days so much brighter during the past six months.
  • Thanks friends and family, for providing so many opportunities to be grateful.
  • Finally, thanks food, shelter and warmth–it’s sobering knowing how capriciously you can disappear.
DianaK

Year 1, Day 94: friends, family, coworkers

I appreciate the wonderful people in my life. I feel utterly grateful to be surrounded by so much grace, wisdom, gentleness and wit. I appreciate all of you so very much. Thank you for making my life the beautiful thing it is.

I appreciate:

  • My family. I’m lucky to be able to count my family members, including my husband and kids, parents, siblings, and cousins, as friends. What a generous, lively, interesting, funny group of people!
  • My chosen family, including dear friends here in town, fellow improvisers, friends from Song School, old friends from childhood.
  • Friends whom I’ve never met in person, but have come to love just as dearly, including my word-geek friends from Bitwordy. 🙂
  • Clients and colleagues who share similar values and who are such a joy to work with.

When I consider how many truly lovely people I encounter on a regular basis, it takes my breath away.

DianaK

Year 1, Day 92: Mondays, facebook, HUGE playing

I appreciate:

  • Laughter Mondays, laughter yoga and Show X. Mondays are awesome!
  • All the excellent posts on FB today. I love my friends who are, like me, searching for brightness and joy in the world. Nice posts today! ♥
  • Getting to play at HUGE again tonight – with my brilliant and amazing classmates from 401. We’re gonna try out our new form! 🙂
DianaK

Year 1, Day 91: numbers, caffeine, !!!! :), and â™¥

I appreciate:

  1. That day 91 (well, 91.25, so depending on whether we’re using the 24-hour day starting at midnight or my real day which started at about 6:45, either 6 am or 12:45 pm…) represents the first quarter year of posting daily appreciation on FB. Yay gratitude! Yay numbers! Yay geekiness!
  2. Caffeine. Can you tell who’s had more than her usual dose this morning?!?? 😛 Yay caffeine!
  3. Exclamation points and smiley faces!!! 🙂
  4. Last night with little Miss R. So much fun to spend time with her. Fills my heart right up! ♥ ♥ ♥
DianaK

Year 1, Day 90: thoughtfulness, fellow improvisors, productive days

I appreciate:

  1. Anthony, for hosting an awesome party — and for the incredibly sweet and funny words and gifts he bestowed upon us! He is thoughtfulness incarnate. 🙂
  2. My fellow improvisers from Comedy Sportz.  You are brilliant, amazing people and I’m so grateful to be able to count you among my friends!
  3. Having had a productive Friday, thus allowing me to float through today pretty easily. 🙂
DianaK

Year 1, Day 89: aftereffects of feeling pleased with aftereffects of feeling pleased with aftereffects

Today’s gratitudes:

  • I appreciate the way bits of scenes from the improv-a-thon flash through my mind and make me laugh all over again. Nice aftereffect!
  • Hahaha – now I appreciate the word aftereffect. I don’t think I’ve ever written it before. It looks cool.
  • I appreciate how easily I’m pleased by words. Being a geek has its advantages! 😉
  • I’m pleased by feeling so pleased about being easily pleased just now. So meta.
DianaK

Year 1, Day 88: people, people, people

Today I appreciate sooooo many people:

  • Thank you, MN, for being such a cool state. We raised over 16 million dollars for more than 4,000 non-profit organizations, including 2 of my favorites, Avalon Charter School and HUGE Theater.
  • Thank you FB friends for tolerating incessant posts and pleas for donations during the past 2 days. 😉
  • Thank you, Janet Brown, for tipping the scale with your donation last night. You are a rock star! ♥ Between the 3 teams I played on and my own page, I helped raise over $500 of the $10,000+ raised for HUGE.
  • Thank you to the countless people who stayed up for 28 hours and made this such an inspiring, exciting event!
  • Thank you, hundreds of improvisers, for taking risks, making choices, and creating beautiful and funny art before our eyes.
DianaK

Year 1, Day 86: huge appreciation for HUGE

It will come as no surprise for you to learn that I appreciate HUGE Theater! Here are today’s reasons:

  1. It is one of the most open and welcoming theater communities I’ve ever encountered.
  2. People of all skill levels are encouraged to explore their creativity, stretch past their comfort levels to see what’s there, and to see an expanded version of themselves in the process.
  3. Honesty and humor color all the improv that happens there — and you can see this amazing live theater 6 nights a week!