Gratitude List:
1.  Sense of Wonder Camp for Girls.  All those girls: wiggly giggly, serious and silly, poised and awkward and graceful all at once, thoughtful and playful and full of light.  The women who put it together, the mothers and mentors who were there to celebrate their girls.  I felt like I could see the silver webs, like a veil of light, that connected us all.
2.  Leaving a place with a sense of dissatisfaction, not because events were dissatisfying,  but because there were so many people there whose words I wanted to feel settling into the shells of my ears, and there was not time for it all.  I drove home surfing a love wave.  “Oh, and then there was her!  I could have talked with her all night.  Oh, and her!  I just love her.  Right, and then her!  What a tender and kind heart.”
3.  A new green T-Shirt with a Rachel Carson Quotation:   “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
4.  Josiah, though still a little warm, is acting like himself again after a couple days of fever.  He refused the Ibuprofen last night and let the fever do its work on its own.
5.  Longest day.  Summer’s here.  Happy Solstice to you!  May the sun warm you all the way to your bones, fill you with life and health and radiance.  Every day the world begins anew.

May we walk in Beauty.