Here’s my Joy List. May it bring you inspiration!
- Flowers
- Travel!
- Photography
- Friendship
- Creating Beauty
- Writing/Journaling
- Stomping in mud puddles
- A delicious cup of coffee
- Squishing my toes in mud
- Word play
- Being completely goofy, making crazy sounds and faces with my kids (or my friends) until our stomaches hurt from laughing (a/k/a Being SILLY)
- Watching my children laugh and play with each other. Playing with them!
- Kissing sticky, PB&J cheeks.
- Heart connection
- Body care
- Being alone. I love my own company.
- Petting a dog
- Reading ecstatic poetry (including my buddy Walt Whitman), especially out loud to an intimate
- Savoring a small piece of really good, dark chocolate
- A crisp, clean, new blank journal
- Moleskin journals. Oh! The flow, the smell, the history….
- Listening to the birds sing
- The smell of spring rain
- Dancing!
- Dappled sunlight dancing on the floor and the walls. I love the interplay of shadow and light
- Bare feet in damp grass
- Cultivating mystery
- Feeling deep compassion for another soul
- Singing to an audience
- Making sand castles
- Driving with music cranked, bass thumping and windows down
- Finding beach glass
- Tumbling in the grass with my kids
- Riding a horse, bareback and bridle free
- Climbing trees
- Dressing up
- Painting (watercolors especially)
- Picking wildflowers
- Smelling and experiencing herbs
- Puttering in my garden
- Hiking
- Biking
- Moonbathing
- Having parties “just because”
- Supporting my friends in achieving their dreams
- The smell and feel of freshly washed sheets
- The smell of newly mown grass (oh yes, I do love that)