Abundant Gratitude

Oh my gosh - what a day. A great day, of course, there's just lots of stuff going on. Good things ~ so much abundance! The image here is Lakshmi, the Goddess of Abundance, and I am thanking her in every moment for my wonderfully rich and abundant life! I had another wonderful private lesson this morning with my friend/student whose flexibility and strength is improving before my eyes, and it's so great to see and be a part of! My lunchtime class turned out to be a private, as well, with a return student, and she was so sweet and attentive and really got a lot out of the class, which made me feel so deeply grateful.

Things are sweet and wonderful with Dave, I've been crafting like mad and had a brilliant idea for a new project that I *love* ~ wish boxes! They're a variation on wish boxes that I've made before, but these will be more Day of the Dead style, like my Spacekitten stuff, and I'm very, very excited about them.

I got an email today alerting me to a special, one-day-only chance to sign up at the gym that I tried out with no initiation fees or processing fees and a super-cheap monthly rate ~ wow! I'm really happy I waited to sign up, because obviously, today was the day I was waiting for! Getting back to having a gym membership feels nice as we move into winter and what is typically rainy season. Although I've loved walking in the park and in the hills, it's so nice to have an option for working out when it's raining out. Also, my neighborhood pool is closed until December 10, so I can't swim there ~ but I can swim at my new gym!

There's a new development happening that I'm not ready to blog about because it's been very challenging to deal with emotionally and I'm waiting to see how some things turn out, but suffice it to say that even though the situation is not currently good, at least it's not horribly terribly bad. I just took a long, hot Epsom-and-sea-salt bath, listening to Island Outpost and reading Living with Joy, a book that M recommended, and I'm feeling the need/desire to post a bunch of gratitudes, so here they are.

• I am so grateful and thankful for my bathtub! Thank you, Universe, for providing me with such a great apartment, such a warm and cozy place to live. I love and appreciate all of the time I (and Dave!) have put into creating such a welcoming and inviting home.
  
• I am so grateful for the healing, love, warmth, respect, and light that exists in my relationship with Dave.
  
• I am grateful for my sweet kitty and truly appreciate her affection and willingness to cuddle.
  
• I have such a beautiful garden! I am so grateful to my landlady, Susan, for taking such good care of the beautiful flowers and plants, for making my garden such a wonderful place to hang out.
  
• I am grateful for the abundance of creativity I've had recently, for all of the inspiration, all of the colors and sparkles and great designs, for all of the great ideas that come to me in odd moments, for the feeling that I have so *much* that I want to create! It's a wonderful feeling of overflowing creativity and I love living in it.
  
• I'm so grateful for Rainbow Grocery and Trader Joe's, with their abundance of colorful, organic foods and low prices ~ and I'm so grateful that Dave and I finally got new canvas bags (the classic L.L. Bean Boat & Tote bags are the best for hauling groceries!) so we don't have to keep reusing or recycling the paper ones.
  
• I am grateful for my Mom, for her health and positive attitude, and for her strength during challenging times.
  
• I'm grateful for my sister, my psychic connection, for her sensitivity and emotions, her Moon-child self.
  
• I am so grateful that *two* agents have now requested partials from me! Yippee!! May the blessings and abundance continue to flow!
  
• I am grateful for my classes at HYP in Berkeley, for the vitality of multi-student classes, and I am so grateful for my privates! I love teaching privates and I am so thankful for the opportunity to teach them whenever they present themselves.
  
• I am so grateful for the assistance people have been willing to offer regarding my book and finding an agent for it ~ Lenny, Will, Neil, friends in LA, Swanna, Molly ~ I feel like I'm creating an army of networkers who can band together and use our collective consciousness and actual connections to help make it all work! So, a HUGE thank-you to anyone and everyone who is currently helping with my book in some way or another!
  
• I am also very, very grateful for the inspiration for my *other* books, which I am finding time to squeeze in work and research here and there.
  
• I am so grateful for my health. It's been wonderful to have my energy back and to be healed from my cold.
  
• I'm so grateful for fresh, nourishing foods, for an abundance of delicious, vegan meals rich with life energy from the earth.
  
• I am so grateful for movement, for exercise, for yoga and stretching and swimming and walking in the hills and for surfing and snowboarding and all of the wonderful outdoor activities that I love so much.
  
• I am grateful for the random email I got today about the gym! I am so thankful that I now have a very affordable option for working out when it's raining, and for swimming when my regular pool is closed. Yay!
  
• I am so thankful for my healthy body, for my strength and flexibility, for my strong heart and low blood pressure. I am so thankful for detoxifying sweat.
  
• I am so thankful for sunsets ~ beautiful sunsets over the ocean, or over the city, turning the buildings and hills gold and sparkly.
  
• I am so grateful to live in such a beautiful city (sigh).
  
• And I am so grateful for the beach and hills in Pacifica, so close to the beautiful city, but like a whole other world sometimes! So close, just a few minutes away, but yet so quiet, secluded, hidden. The city nobody knows about ~ and yet where Dave and I have so many of our special, secret spots, out in nature, near the water, by the ocean that I love so much. I am so grateful that Pacifica has not been "discovered," that it still exists as its own little world, its own quiet, little beach area tucked away.
  
• I am so grateful for so many things and I'm grateful that I'm grateful for them, but I'm getting sleepy now! It's past my bedtime, I think. So I will go to bed now and enjoy and be thankful for my wonderful, deliciously cozy bed and I will have sweet, sweet dreams of gratitude and love all night. Thank you, Universe, for so many blessings and so much abundance in my life!