April Joy

1.  baby rhino born @ NC Zoo
2.  Lucy, my new friend
3.  My Bro  -- speak 2 him almost every day
4.  Seeing my 2 beautiful granddaughters on FBook
5  Walks in woods
6.  Sending Pres. rump a card
7.  Ordered handmade masks
8.  Blue sky
9.  Wildflowers
10. Poems
11.Fixed wifi problem
12, A free week of Sundance channel
13.candles
14/ radical acceptance

15, deep breaths
16. avoiding overeating
17.  buddhism
18.  speaking w my fam. in Brookline for an hr. sunday
19.. mindfulness
20.  savoring food
21.  beans for protein
22.  Lincoln
23.  camomile
24  small gothic places
25.  zoom
26.  feeling relaxed
27.  fiber in my food plan
28.  being a grandma = JOY
29.  being curious
30.  painkillers
31.  beauty around me
32.relaxing 2 day
33.  gregorian chans
34.  our governor
35. comedians
36.  bird songs in morning
37.  movie Frozen
38.  Nora Jones
39.  having a home
40.  being generous
41. a visual dance class
42.  hope
43.  illuminaed manuscripts
44.  offering 2 help Arhriis Foundation
45.  having beautiful surroundings
47.  Chinese bells reduce stress
49  Shosakovich  
50.  I can write a lovely poem
51.  Sophia
52.  Photos of Margot as a baby
53    Sundance Channel
54.  ShaLeigh's dance class
55.  Memories of myPilobolus class
56. Forests 
57.  Julie Lowndes
58. veggie pizza from sprouts
59.  Berkee College of Music virtual orchestra 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QagzdvzzHBQ
60.  Kim Stafford
61.  Poetry group 2 night
62.  Democracy Now
63.   Sitting in the sun
64.  Determination
65.  Cussin'  -- good stress relief
66  Steevie
67. My political involvement
68.  I wrote trump a letter.
69.  I accept  that he is a sociopath and narcissistic & worst prez. we have 
ever had.

70. Grateful for freedom of speech
71.  Paris
72.  Feeling deeply
73.  My suffering
74.  My healing
75.  Dance heals
76. Getting 2 new paintings from Steevie
77.  Going 2 Sprouts even tho I was anxious
78.  Radical Joy
79.  this poem:

Radical Joy 

by Dana S

the roses have opened their shirts

Queen Anne's lace

graces our path

where yellow pansies with black 

eyes wait

for more passers-by

to stop, turn, and breathe 

the breath

of "hello"

"how are you"