309. Finally getting ALL the laundry done. 😉 Fabulous day with Katie and Cina first going to see Finding Dory and later playing with rainbows and sparkles for Pride. Feeling a little more like myself today!
310. Watching the parade with Sarah & Ida & Katie & Cina. Fun!! Free pedicab ride to the park after the parade…. kind of like being in our own (super windy) parade. Wheeee! 😀 Rainbow sparkle toes, and rainbow earrings and beads and glasses, oh my. 
306. Hawkins Automotive. They always do such a great job and are friendly and fast, too! Fun and productive meeting with Sara. Playing Bananagrams with the kids during the thunderstorm. Minneapolis skyline at night. Theo Wirth Pkwy.
307. Trees with faces. Perfect weather for a walk. Summer purples and yellows and whites, oh my.
308. Being the Minneapolis hub for Katie and Cina! I love the lunchtime visits with Cina and the before- or after-meeting/rehearsal visits with Katie. So sweet to see my girls so often! 😀 # happymama
Starting to see some relief from the depression. How fortunate I am to have a solid support network of awesome friends and family — and meds to help when the non-pharmaceutical methods aren’t quite enough. #onedayatatime
The promise of thunderstorms. I love stormy weather!
Awesome morning with Sarah and Ida, picking out paint samples, making plans, giggling, and having fun. 😀
Lovely cooler weather and nice breeze made for a really comfortable walk — and comfortable yard work. Look ma, no sweat! 😉
The wonderful people in my life, offering so much support, love, and comfort as I traverse this new PTSD/depression terrain (or as Katie calls it, my mental illness sampler platter…) I am incredibly fortunate to have these amazing people in my life.
Gorgeous weather.
Walk to Royal Grounds and coffee with Katie.
Delicious dinner with Debb & Katie.
Sweet after-dinner walk with Katie — and the friendliest cat in the neighborhood! This little kitty has come with us on several walks and purrs and purrs and purrs…and comes really close to me every time I try to take a photo.
Being part of the sunglasses squad. I like these people so much!
The way the air smells outside after a rain.
Walking.
Amazing gardens near me. I love that so many neighbors’ front yards are all or mostly garden! 
Breathing.
Finding pools of calm and joy even during darker days.
Beautiful friends reaching out to see how I’m doing.
The cool variety of trees the city’s planted to replace the lost elms. Hooray biodiversity.
Sunshine.
Rain.
Wind.
273. Our new tree! The city planted a Bur Oak on the boulevard. It will be so thrilling to watch it grow. 🙂
The most exquisite smell of french lilacs. I know I look like a lunatic, stopping to stick my face in to smell them when I’m out walking around, but I don’t actually care. What a delicious aroma! Mmmmm.
Sunlit tulips and gardens.
274. Native plant sale and breakfast with Laura. What a fun start to the weekend! We learned a lot about how to prepare for a plant sale. Next time we’ll be ready with containers and cash! 😉 Doesn’t seem to matter what we do, Laura and I always have fun. Breakfast at the Good Earth was delicious!
Astonishingly beautiful weather. I always fall back in love with Minnesota at this time of year!
Driving myself to Rindo’s party tonight. Didn’t stay long, but got to see a few beloved people before I left. Longest solo trip I’ve made in months. 😉
275. Fabulous walk and breakfast with Kat and Cina to start the day. 🙂
The excellent timing of things…like discovering the handle to the storm door was broken before leaving the house, thereby avoiding being locked out! (Thanks, Mckenzie, for fixing it!)
Raspberries and blueberries. Yum.
276. Fantastic Mastermind meeting today. I am so lucky to work with bright, funny, insightful people like Jerilyn and Amy!
More progress on the walkway on the south side of the house. It feels so great to be making progress on projects like this that have been neglected for years. Today we got another bag of weeds cleared out and got all the new plants in the ground.
Brilliant chat with Alison today. My friends are the most interesting, sweet, fun people. I’m so lucky!
So many sweet moments today. I like the feeling that I am learning to hold the truth of the challenges in my life right alongside the truth of the beauty in my life.
Today I got to spend time with Katie, including a walk up to the coffee shop where the barista pulled out my favorite pastry as I walked up to the counter and then asked if I wanted an Americano. (I did!) I love the familiar friendly faces of the folks at Royal Grounds!
This excellent day also included getting more work done than I have most days lately. That felt great.
What else? Oh, right, the magnificent weather. Gorgeous.
Also, goslings! So adorable!
Another spectacular part of the day included walking around Linden Hills with the kids when we went to pick up Cina’s birthday cake at Sebastian Joe’s. On our way back to the car (which we’d parked at Lake Harriet), we met a family out for a walk who asked us to take their picture…because they were out on their baby’s first walk!! Took some photos and chatted with the beaming mom and dad and grandparents, who introduced us to 1-week old Lincoln. And that tiny, gorgeous little creature took my finger and held on tight. What a magical moment we got to be part of.
My sweet day concluded with a lovely conversation reconnecting with my dear friend Terri. I am incredibly thankful for her, and for the other fascinating, thoughtful, open-hearted people in my life.
And I love that I’m recording this so I can re-experience this deep sense of well-being another day when I might need it. 🙂
Glorious visit with Sarah and Ida, plus getting see so many improv friends at today’s gathering. It had been a LONG time, so it was marvelous to catch up a little.❤
Spectacular weather. My favorite thing about MN is days like today!
Delightful dinner and errand-running with David. People have been so generous about driving me around town the past two months. I appreciate it SO much. Two down, one to go…
Gradually getting back to normal (well, as “normal” as I’ve ever been 😉 ) Today I was able to be out socializing and running errands for over 5 hours — and only had one dizzy spell. Hooray!
Stretching my idiolect to include more words that mean wonderful. Today’s additions: glorious and marvelous. We’ll see if they stick.
Weather variety. I do love how things change from day to day — and hour to hour. Today it went from steely gray to drizzly to pouring sheets of rain and back to steely in the space of an hour or so. Fun to watch!
Cozy blankets for cloudy days.
Spending time with my squeaky kid in her Pikachu cap. I like it when she drops by for the evening!
Gorgeous, gorgeous weather. Super long, but super productive and enjoyable day!
Wonderful meeting with JohnnyLinn, yummy and constructive work meeting with Sara at the Third Bird, and fun errands with Laura!
Super sweet night with the kids to celebrate Mckenzie’s birthday! Pizza, cake, presents, and then SO MUCH FUN painting together while listening to the soothing voice and excellent instructions of Bob Ross. 😉 Perfect. ❤ ❤ ❤
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