The 100

 1. Friday noon poets.

2.  Lisa Tomey

3.  Mali

4.  Aruna

5.  Doug

6.  little kids playing outside

7.  Preston'

]8. Networking with NC Biotech people

9.  Prayer

10.  Monday Best Buy geeks

The Science of Happiness:

11.  Monday afternoon with Francis

11.  DTH Friday night live

12.  Doing an oral history on Faye Bryant Mayo

13.  Nice warm baths at night

14.  Walt Whitman

15.  Forests

16.  Natasha Treathaway

17.  Earl Hubbarb

18.  Zero risk tomorrow

19.  feeling safe

20.  Vizshlas

21.  Franklin

22.  Morgan

23.  Archives

24.  UNC digital Archives course

25.  Biden's statement on Nigeria

26.  Scotland

27.  Ireland

28.  The Red Clay Review

29.  Lynn Unger's poem on the pandemic

30.  Silent settings

31.  not taking phone calls

32.  Lavender oil.

33.  Inhaling the scent of a longleaf pine

34.  My mother.

35.  Living in Alaska

37.  Want to go back.

38.  Juli

30.  Ferries.

32.  Biographies.

40.  Finished one on Churchill

34.  Being driven.

35.  You can create books on a Mac 

36.  not. having to hassle with a car.

36.  Sycamore trees.

38.  Bach

39.  Mozart

40.  Netflix

42.  Sophia

43.  Durham Hist. Museum.

44.  Faye Mayo

45.  Gotta call her.

46.  Adam

47.  Jeff Nichols

58.  Jeff Nichols

49.  Sending well wishes

50.  UT archive courses

51.  teddy bears I can rest under my arms

52.  Rubenstein Library

53.  Alice Osborne.

54.  glass containers

55.  Silence

56.  Comfort

57.  getting stronger

58.  all my Duke doctors

59.  my physical therapist

60/. Throwing papers away.

61.  Thay

62. Mindfulness

63.  not eating anything after 8 pm

64.  tolerating discomfort

65.  the Eiffel Tower

66.  the Royal St. Germaine Hotal

67.  Dutch chocolate

68.  Dutch coffee

69.  living here

70.  being a grandma

71.  frances

72.  lavender oil

73.  notebooks

74/. Whitman

75.  Harold Bloom

76.  Emerson

77.  Poe

78.  my voice

79.  audio books

80.  the f word

81.  Therapists

82.  Deliveries

83.  Having enough

84.  Being enough

85.  Bennett

86.  Gregory Porter

87.  Mike Tyus

88.  Renee Jaworski

89.  ADF

90.  Dancing on pointe

91.  warm water pools

92.  La Jolla

93.  Steamboat Springs

94.  Norway

95.  France

96.  Holland

97.  being comfortable

98.  curbing my enthusiasm

99.  Frances' leap

100.  having 3 black babies to take care of, one with curly hair, one who giggles, and one falls asleep easily and lets me rock her

The Hundred Things

Each month, I try to make a list of 100 things I'm grateful for:

1.  A sunny day in February
2.  The warm sun on my face
3.  A brief walk outside
4.  Reaching out to a friend whose husband died
5.  Offering to help a friend
6.  Friendship of Mali and Morgan
7.  The sestina i started
8.  Volunteering for the NC Parkinsons Project
9.  My book on the mindful diet
10.  My beautiful apartment
11.  Conrad's poems
12.  His wife, Jane
13.  His legacy
14.  Getting a fire extinguisher today -- maybe my apt. insurance will go down
15.  Aruna Gurumurphy
16.  A vegan dinner
17.  Today's chocolate -- i needed it
18.  Seeing Shannon on Wed.
19.  Today's chat with an Englishmen
20.  The twin toddlers Amanda was taking care of
21.  Jonah and his help with tech
22.  Getting forms sent in I'd been dreading to do
23.  Taking my pain med today
24.  Quinoa cereal
25.  Pomegranets
26.  Jaki Shelton Greene
27.  Maya Angelou
28.  Mimi
29.  Anna
30.  Erin
31.  Anna Wilcox and her beautiful wedding that was just SO SWEET and inspired me to write a poem
32.  My docs
33.  Slave narratives
34.  Taking it easy.
35.  Letting go of stress
36.  Deep breaths
37.  Mindful meditation
38.  The memory of visiting Wimbledon
39.  The Tower of London
40.  Norway
41.  Bath
42.  Oxford
43.  Henley on Thames where George Harrison lived
44.  The Beatles
45.  Having an iPhone
46.  My granddaughters
47.  Their parents
48.  Virginia's Eastern Shore
49.  Being a good writer
50.  Volunteering
51.  A Yoga Project
52.  Surviving trauma
53.  Believing in a higher power
54.  The pre-frontal cortex, the executive function of the brain
55.  Sundance Now movies
56.  Justice
57.  Forgiveness
58.  Warmth
59.  Help
60.  Galen
61.  Samantha
62.  Being non-judgmental
63.  Writing a poem for Conrad
64.  Wanting to visit Martha's Vineyard
65,  A willingness to be open minded
66.  Mali
67.  Not looking at Facebook today
68.  Relaxing tonight
69.  Feeling cozy
70.  Chatting with someone from Britain
71.  The Moth Story Hour
72.  Laughing out loud
73.  Connection
74.  Solitude
75.  A workshop to attend w/ Tori amos about putting a manuscript together  IN MARCH
76.  Jane Neumann
77.  Deep water aerobics
78.  A heated pool
79.  Carolyn, an old friend who makes me laugh
80.  Having a bucket list
81.  Wanting to visit Dayton Ohio, my birthplace
82.  My family history -- strong stock
83.  Waiting
84.  Celtic prayers
85.  My iPhone
86.  Having my feet up
87.  A cozy bed
88.  A quiet apartment
89.  Tonight's dinner of broccoli and quinoa and a big fat honey crisp apple
90.  Pomegranates
91.  Veggie burgers
92.  Turning 70
93.  Not acting 70
94.  Looking younger
95.  Longevity in my family
96.  Making it this far
97.  The "third act"
98.  Having a "bucket list"
99.  The Findhorn Community and wanting to visit there.
100.  100 things -- done

100 things

I like to write a list of 100 things i'm grateful for at the end of the month...well, here it is the 4th day of October.

1.  relaxing on the patio this morning and finishing anna's poem.
2.  ordinary things
3.  franklin golden
4.  alex
5.  mali
6.  jordan
7.  this poem:  "dancing is truth too much, to soothe the soul or tearing eye, to catch the fleeting dragonfly"...don't know who wrote this...me maybe?
8.  a sunday spent writing poetry and reading
9.  daniel tiger...so cute!
10.  mike k.
11.  my ceiling finally got fixed
12.  my cool  apartment
13.  carpet cleaned!  yay!
14.  apple care cuz i call them so much
15.  my patio for breakfast
16.  our clubhouse
17.  beth navon
18. dinner w vegan group at uu
19.  butterflies
20.  morgan
21.  lipstick
22.  having power
23.  soft rain
24.  small group
25.  church
26.  this book:  the mind that heals itself
27. my mary queen of scots poem
28.  the green drink
29.  harris teeter grocery stor
30.  my friend mimi
31.  ed
32.  spiders
33.   Primo Levy
34.  Friday Noon Poets
35.  new friend soma
36.  sunday rests
37.  2 hour naps on sunday
38.  coffee w almond milk
39.  kale
40.  amtrak
41.  getting posters made of my poems
42.  adam's film
43/ protein shakes
44. bartaco cafe in chapel hill
45.  jeff brantley's books
46...my car
47.  being able to watch the Kavenaugh hearing
48.  coffee at the clubhouse
50.  steevie
51.  not having to have cataract surgery yet
52.  anna wilcox's wedding
53.  bob dylan
54.  musical group:  the merry gadflies
55.  volunteering
56.  the gym at the clubhouse
57.  Phoenix -- new friend
58.  durham
59.  branford marsalis
60.  jogging in the water with a flotation belt on
61.  AEA class coming to greenville
62.  not having a cat
63.  wanting to meet guys
64.  e- harmony
65.  gentle movements
66.  morning stretches
67.  getting one of my computer problems taken care of
68.  the woods behind my apt.
69.  reading einstein's bio
70.  my bro
71.  my beautiful granddaughters
72.  the poet billy collins
73.  the dance workshop w pilobolus
74.  weight sharing
75.  the classical station
76.  having enough
77. having the strength to do what i need to do
78.  mindfulness
79.  hard times are bringing us together.
80.  beans
81.  deep breaths
82.  qi gong
83.  dance
84.  pearl primas
85.  chuck davis
86.  hearing the birds in the morning
87.  stresslessness
88.  my vegan cook book
89.  a delicious lunch waiting for me.
90.  sibelius
91.  quitting tai chi cuz i don't enjoy it
92.  memories of london and the Church of St. Martin in the Fields
93.  george harrison
94.  npr
95.  standing
96.  the website "AllPoetry"
97.  faulkner
98.  scientific discovery
99.  kathy t.
100.  steevie

A Hundred Things I'm Grateful For Today, Sunday, May 27, 2018

1.  Coming to UU today
2.  Jacqueline's sermon
3.  Glad she got her M. Div.
4.  She might be staying on
5. Being here
6.  Good night's sleep
7.  The color green
8.  Desire to do some writing
9.  The counselor at CC Spaulding
10. UU in Boston
11. Love for Franklin and family
12. Desire to invite Franklin to lunch
13. I can stand.
14. "Just for today"
15. I'm still here
16.  I'll be joining UU
17. Let it be
18. John Lennon
19. How Jacqueline's face lights up
20.  The music this morning
21. Rachmaninoff
22. Kate Lewis, the pianist
24. She played I've Got Plenty Of Nothing
25. She introduced me to Bruno Mars, who is so cool!
26. Joan Brett, she read a poem this morning.
27. Langston Hughes
28. Langston Hughes : "The Negro Mother"
28. Langston Hughes:  The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
29. Got to 2 meetings
30. NC Museum of Hist. has WW1 exhibit
31. Daddy's birthday is the 31st
32. I'd like to see the Sohm some day
33. I've been to the American Cemetary at the D Day Beaches--so inspiring
34. Going to see Pilobolus
35. Resting today and not working out
36. Doing stretches
37. My health
37. It's cooling off
38. Cleaning today
39. 40 binaural Hz
40. Avoiding the news
41.  Done with food for today
42.  Realizing i need to switch to decaff tea
43. Tomorrow is Memorial Day
44.  The Wall Street Journal articles I clipped out last night.
45.  Integrative medicine has primary care.
46.  The sound of a water fall.
47.  It's all good.
48.  Netflix
49.  Financially stable.
50.  Interesting people I've met
51.  Bruno Mars
52.  Beyonce, "Single Ladies"
53.  Mindfulness
54.  My docs
55.  Almost finished eating for today.
56.  No need to stress.
57. Avoiding email
58.  Having my feet up
59.  Having the power to live my life the way I want
60.  Adam Stone is my nephew
62.  Tomorrow's a holiday.  (Memorial Day)
63.  The music of David Wingo
64.  The people in my Tuesday meditation group
65.  Megan Yankee, new friend at ADF
66.  Her partner is John Osborn
67.  Kate Lewis, musician at UU
68.  My cat has a new home!
69.  the ADF summer season starts soon
70.  morning stretches
71.  Elaine from Cambridge
72.  My World Pulse postings are getting hits.
73.  Where I live
74. In the forest
75.  Our Y
76.  Deep breaths
77.  Got an iPhone
78.  Finally  Morgan's offered to help me set it up
79.  quilts
80.  Sounds of waterfalls
81.  Peter Makuck and the memory of writing a poem inspired by his poetry
82.  Janis in Arizona
83.  Ed in Boston
84.  Duke Blue
85.  my dad and his letters that I inherited
86.  Uncle Ed's rare book collection at U. Va
87.  Mel in Palm Springs
88.  Julie and her Alaska Native archives
89.  job interview went well
90.  libraries
91.  financial stability
92.  Rusty
93.  Washington, CT
94.  Black Mountain College
95.  Rubenstein Library
96.  strength
97.  not dating at the moment
98.  God brings the most interesting people into my life.
99.  gentle movement
100. my accomplishments