10 Things for 30 Days Appreciation Challenge

[WhiteOwl]

Day 10.

 

1. My morning meditation

2. My morning smoothie

3. The track i am just working on. Very deep vibes

4. Feeling the courage to push things forward

5. how seeing + breath is perfect for focusing on else than thoughts

6. my sister today. So amazing and nice to talk with.

7. That i got pencils to start drawing

8. My nephews today. 

9. That i woke up earlier. Im back on a pretty good rhythm.

10. That my EP is selling more now after the labels second release. Realizing how momentum is important there as well. Keep it coming.

11. The walk today in the rain.

12. The track i finished today. Sounds very nice.

[Mandy]

Day 11

 

1. Mom took the kids afterschool

2. I had time to make biscuits

3. Living close to my parents

4. Exploring through town, taking shortcuts, crossing streams with the dog. The history here is so wonderful you can feel it. Mostly taken back my nature. My favorite thing ever. 

5. Antiques and old stuff and the presence they have.

6. My kid's school.

7. lemon water, so many times I feel off and can't place why and a lemon water fixes it

8. how you can't get away from it, you can't exclude yourself

9. all wisdom goes back to the tree https://www.etymonline.com/word/book

 10. Wellbeing

11. Hot water and electricity

12. Getting a start on the upper cabinets painting

13. Having a breather after tomorrow's event, having my schedule set

14. New ideas, breathing new life into older designs

15. The girl at Sherwin William's recommendation for a cheap but awesome paintbrush

16. Taking a day off from working out and enjoying the rest

17. How pretty and sparkly frost is

18. How it definitely feels like solar Spring

19. ETYMOLOGY

20. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=story history, duh. 😳

 

 

[Mandy]

Day 12

 

1. The way dogs sometimes pin your arm down with their paw when they don't want you to stop petting them. 

2. Stars, and the symbolism of them

3. Not shirking from the hurts

4. Underappreciated things 

5. kettlebell swings

6. nostalgia and music

7. How the old is actually always new

8. How nothing is ever unseen and nothing is ever seen either

9. Jesus

10. Not holding back

11. Never having occurred to have done so

12. Men

13. How looking at that old house made me feel today

14. How the old dump is now just a pretty public spot to look at the river

15. How the dump road is now some of the prettiest waterfront. 

16. The jokester God must be. 

17. How everything is redeemed.

18. How heaven isn't a place, but is a place on earth, yes Belinda.

19. Putting first things first

20. Holding the sacred with no regard and no lack of love for it

21. Not letting your fear decide your fate, and not being afraid of the goddamn sentiment itself. 

[WhiteOwl]

Day 12.

 

1. The walk til work today. Amazing weather.

2. The track i am making. Finding the vibe i want to create more of.

3. Things clicking that everything is consciousness. There is nothing outside of it. 

4. Eagerness to create new ideas.

5. The exercise with writing 3 things you appreciate about a topic that feels discordant.

6. The nightshift guy from work.

7. Feeling tired right now, ready to sleep.

8. Morning workout

9. The book i am reading. Looking forward to read more tomorrow.

10. My plants

11. Ideas for having a hammock in my new home. And for making it super cosy.

 

[Mandy]

Day 13

1. Someone wrote something really sweet at the perfect time.

2. Reciprocity

3. The dog sitting in front of the heater in a pile of my daughter's beanie babies with his butt high in the air so it doesn't get too hot. 😂

4. Feel super energized to do and during a HIIT workout this morning.

5. This community.

6. Being able to express here what I actually feel and actually want to talk about unlike any other place.

7. When someone you knew from high school sports buys your art.

8. Taking a moment to just be still.

9. The Mad Hippie skincare brand and my wonderful also crunchy friend who recommended it, and after a night's sleep it being funny that someone made fun of you for it while trying to sell you on a MLM brand. 

10. Buying used clothes and how so many crunchy things actually feel amazing and make so much sense. 

11. Another gorgeous sunny day. 

12. Feeling of abundance in everyway, time, money, love, appreciation, ideas, inspiration.

13. Sinking into the unconditional, tears may be shed, all the better

14. Mom's neighbor friend went to a food co-op and gave her some shiitake mushrooms in a McDonald's paper bag (she recycles everything) which I thought was hilarious and strange, and then Mom said there were too many for her to use ,and then gave me some to take home in the same bag. LOA, lol. 

15. They also got me purple sweet potatoes. 

16. Women Who Run With Wolves 

17. Not taking stuff seriously

18. Planned a trip 

19. Taking a day off from working at the torch

20. Funny conversations

21. That @WhiteOwl is sharing this journal.

22. That alone used to be two words, all one. We combined into all one word. Then the meaning changed into some shit. Not two. 

[Mandy]

Day 14

1. Later sunsets

2. warmer weather today

3. dad cut the fallen trees out of the ski trail. 

4. planned my trip and got payment for a lot of unpaid work from a customer right after, so I won't even notice the cost

5. got out for a run today

6. Had a good conversation about my husband with a touchy political subject and I think we both understood each other's differing viewpoint 😂

7. Love how my kitchen looks with the new cabinet color, making progress

8. That meditation buzz

9. Took the time to meditate this afternoon for the first time in a while. 

10. How easy it is to eat fresh veggies using the food processer to chop fresh veggies like kale and carrots. 

11. Coconut aminos, yum. 

12. My daughter's creativity

13. Seeing your own ignorance, which can never be yours, but, yeah

14. Freedom to create

15. Doing your best

16. Choosing to take the time to clean the kitchen first and allowing myself to enjoy the cabinet project

17. Giving my dog a belly rub

18. actually  using the 20lb dumbbells that sat for years rusting in the garage

19. Found out what is attracting the mice in the house and caught one

20. Finding easier ways to do things

21. The big wide world, and how it's small after all, the best of both world because there isn't one. 

22. That it's a dance because it's really a whirled. 😂

23. life https://www.etymonline.com/word/life

[WhiteOwl]

Day 14.

 

1. How great i feel after yesterdays crash and burn 🤣

2. The movie Barbie i watched. Surprisingly entertaining and left me feeling inspired.

3. The track i am making today. I can imagine that at an outside rave during the night. 

4. My novation synth.

5. That i found a place to stay that i am happy with for now.

6. The grape i bought, i will eat that now.

7. The walks i had today.

8. The euphoric feelings that seem to come out of nowhere.

9. I can just feel something is up. Magic is ensuing.

10. Having work tomorrow.

11. Palo santo. Love the smell of it and how it cleanses the room.

12. My lamps

13. My pictures.

[Mandy]

Day 15

1. Made a giant veggie soup, purple sweet potato turned in purple.

2. My daughter cleaned her room, cleared the floor completely by herself. Still shocked. 

3. Did a balance ball workout that was really fun and went well. 

4. journaling, no shit, no sherlock

5. Getting a good hours work in before bed. 

6. This conversation with Derek Sivers and how he took on Mark's ingrained intellectualism (but still love him) for a hot minute. 

7. How we're writing our own belief. DAMN, what he said about that was so intriguing. 

8. Swearing, it's so cathartic

9. How corny yet emotional and powerful 80's music videos are. 

10. How nothing is actually shallow. That was a mindfuck. 

11. George Ezra

12. Shaky ground gives way to flying. 

13. How you don't have to rise above ego because ego is the thought that hilariously thinks it's and entity rising above but the only one of any importance.

14. How thoughts don't actually regard each other, what seems to make two can't make two. 

15. Etymology of thought. Pretty awesome. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=thought

 

16. Magic

17. Mystery

18. Surprise

19. Putting feeling first

20. Not questioning value

21. How tastes change

22. My son's sense of humor

23. The Sirius chill channel and how easy it is to discover stuff that's awesome but not that popular. 

24. Synergy

 

[WhiteOwl]

Day 15.

 

1. That i got up early today.

2. My meditation experience when i came home from work. Really interesting, hard to put into words.

3. The breath. How its always there to support.

4. My internet meme-guru who made me laugh hysterically for 2 days now. Its very over the line and i would never even dare to even "like" it, but man i resonate with it. So hilarious.

5. The book i am reading.

6. All the people who buy my music. I really appreciate that.

7. How much my parents have always helped me and supported me. 

8. My computer. Best choice ever to buy a really great one. So happy for it.

9. The sardines i ate today. Delicious. 

10. The freedom that lies within "negative" emotion. 

[Mandy]

Day 16

1. How quick my crappy mood shifted this morning

2. working out and the freedom to choose what makes me happy and challenges me

3. the second Derek Sivers podcast I listened to. 

4. Being able to help my dad cut trees in the woods by pulling the sled with his chainsaws. 

5. Getting roofer recommendations today

6. Still more progress on the upper cabinets, doing some most everyday

7. How springish the day felt, getting outside

8. Making a few different designs that will be fun to show off tomorrow in my preview

9. Still can't get over just how easy it is to focus on what's wanted

10. Just writing thoughts down when something feels off.

11. My mortar and pestle, it's really intriguing and witchy and I can't wait for summer to use it with plantain and other plants

12. Witch balls, took one I had stored away down while cleaning the cabinets, forgot how pretty it was, and gonna hang it up somewhere. Cause witch's have balls. 

13. Husband shared his audible account with me. 

14. How you don't have to have what you want, just not be resisting it it to feel good. 

15. When my kids get along. 

16. Checking your beliefs, and using feeling as radar for them. 

17. flannel sheets

18. My giant palm plant 

19. this

20. How the profound, the beautiful and the hilarious and nonsensical blend so beautifully.

21. Alice in Wonderland

22. The excitement when you discover something really great you've just barely exlpored. 

23. That that's always the case, whether it seems to be manifest or not. 

24. How contagious being in the Vortex is, and if it's not it makes you even more ______________ that you're not. 

25. That there's no limit on how to explain this, cause it can't 

 

[WhiteOwl]

Day 16.

 

1. The guy i work for. We have so much fun it surprises me sometimes.

2. Whatever is going on "inside" of "me" right now. Energy and motion

3. What the cards are showing me. Draw the devil card today asking about IM. Kind of makes sense. Not that she is the devil but she triggers things. A lot of golden nuggets to look into.

4. That i signed up for Reiki 1 beginning of march.

5. My colleague being cute and awesome today.

6. The mark manson podcast i had recommended. Good stuff.

7. That i did the laundry before work.

8. That the label from Berlin wants to premiere my next track.

9. That my mother wants to take care of my plants while i don't have enough space for all of them.

10. How much growth and learning there has been this last half year looking back. Turbulent but oh wow.

11. Feeling eager to create and see things come to life. 

 

[Reena]

10 things I'm grateful for

 

I have the ability to listen to songs

I have the ability to walk

I have the ability to drink water

I have the ability to taste different foods and flavors

I have the ability to smell flowers

That I suffered my disastrous past

That I can have my daily bread

That I can speak and express myself

That I can write still

That I still have artistic and creative juices flowing.

 

[Mandy]

Day 17

1. Carolyn Girvan's amazing free workout library

2. The fact that she has inspired me to lift heavier weights 

3. This mild winter, I've never had a better easier winter anyway and now it's turning out to be so mild lately. 

4. Our everyone knows and looks out for everyone little community

5. Feeling passionate about something

6. Infinite possibilities

7. BEAUTIFUL weather

8. The cemetery

9. My neighbor

10. Stuff getting figured out with the needing a new roof thing. 

11. How awesome it feels to stay calm in stressful  situations

12. How easy social media makes contacting people

13. How people are getting more daring with using color in their homes. 

14. That there's not really good or bad and you can really just create

15. Yellow and green together

16. Ideas for new designs

17. My rainbow lighted keyboard

18. The pink cow drawing my daughter made for me

19. Smiling

20. That my dreamboard happens to be where I work out and i get to look at it then. 

21. Everything that goes into running this forum

22. weather forecasts

23. that love is infinite and boundless

24. that you can't ever figure out how wealthy, pretty, smart you are, cause those things aren't yours

25. The projection of intelligence. 

26. Writing, and challenging myself to do it better, and also to feel when just let it go as it is. 

[WhiteOwl]

Day 17. 

 

1. My colleague at work today and how he inspired me being calm.

2. The guy who will facilitate the bufo on thursday. Met him first day today. Good guy.

3. The bar we met at. Super cool place, want to go there sometime when its open.

4. The girl who asked me for beer, really appreciate that even though now is not the time.

5. That everything can be let go. No point in believing any thought story. 

6. My new calendar (is that seriously spelled like that? was sure it was calender) that i am going to write in.

7. That what i really want is fun and creation, not to get or own anything.

8. Sugekop

9. The "spiritual" experiences happening when letting going into feelings late in the evening. 

10. People buying my music.

11. Finding new music.

12. Beautiful women.

13. Nature. Can't wait to live close to a very nice graveyard in march.

[Mandy]

Day 18

1. My steam mop

2. Got the kitchen cleaned up and the floors done. 

3. Got a youtube video posted.

4. Having plenty of pieces for my event tonight. 

5. Clear weather. 

6. Beautiful sunset

7. My daughter's enthusiasm making out her Valentines

8. Not trying to find security where it isn't

9. My kids

10. the pearl of great price parable

[Proserpina]

Things I'm grateful for: 

 

1. Jan Blomqvist 

2. The spirits in my room

3. My beautiful house

4. Music

5. Lovely dresses

6. Friendships

7. The chakras

8. Feminine self care

9. Synchronicities

10. Journalling

[Mandy]

Day 19

1. That more people are using this journal

2. That it's Valentine's Day, love it. 

3. My Mom's friend contacted us about giving my parents an incredibly generous gift to help them out. 

4. Those oh so full of contrast but also really brilliant days

5. How kind and wonderful people were while doing errands today

6. The synchronicity of being on the phone with mom talking about having no spoons and seeing two spoons so oddly nestled together so I couldn't tell if there were one or two that had fallen on the floor that way. 

7. How Nobody is a comic genius. 

8. Talking with mom on the phone about synchronicity and signs, it's a rare topic to be able to discuss with her and she was totally rocking it. 

9. How invigorating COLD weather is. 

10. The synchronicity in the Pamela Reif workout today, with the songs, I was somehow thinking something and the lyrics of the song totally hit me upside the head awake like seeing the spoons. 

11. The innocence in exploration, how sometimes you take a dead end but that's a great thing to know, just don't keep going down the same road. 

 

 

[Mandy]

Day 20

1. How when you're really appreciative everything flows in together

2. My daughter got in on a cancelation and got her eye exam

3. I got a great recommendation for a new roof

4. Creating 

5. The wonderful people around me

6. Cleaning up a part of the house that's been neglected a while

7. Chai tea

8. Being flexible enough to take the opportunities the day provides. 

9. asking questions

10. Insurance paid for my daughter's glasses and I didn't expect that at all

11. Just saying how you want to feel and how quickly it shows up

12. Conversation with my dad this morning about how pessimism, humor and wanting to be liked go together, I want to write/contemplate about it more.

 

[Mandy]

Day 21

1. My dog for being 100% enthused about be woken up to help me scare away a mouse at 2AM. 😂

2. Problem solving

3. Got more work done on the cabinet project, still really love the way they look. 

4. Productive day working.

5. Weather forecasts

6. Helpful insurance agents

7. How satisfying it is to eat mostly plant based

8. My parent's dog and how he is maturing into such a great dog. 

9. How easy dogs are to appreciate. 

10. Things working out, seeing that they always are

11. Salads that are actually great

12. That my dad got his cataracts removed and can see again. 

13. How incredibly generous people around me are. 

 

[Mandy]

Day 22

1. The relief of taking oneself out of the equation (problem) 

2. My husband

3. Planning ahead.

4. The insight of how you can't ask yourself if you actually like someone if you're caring what they think of you, and what that really leads to is the realization that you aren't really seeing/loving/allowing them either.

5. The reminder that you don't have to be perfect because you'll never be complete, finished https://www.etymonline.com/word/perfect

6. Those windows where you see the space inside is the same as outside

7. How BEAUTIFUL people are if you get past your own shit, and it's all yours.

8. The Mister God this is Anna book

9. Starting simple

10. Seeing the stars

11. The Orion constellation

12. Feeling prepared for tomorrow's work event

13. Speaking from the heart

14. Letting go of assumptions

15. Magic or positive expectation