Appreciatings

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Paradise-on-earth, Spiritualcookie--Hi!! Love reading your sharings! thank you for the welcome! I was skylark on the old forum! I needed a focused space for consistent appreciation practise, so here I am.

skylark!!! I totally missed that this is you, I'm so sorry!! SO GOOD to "see" you!!

[FeelGood]

FeelGood, Jenny Lee, Spiritual cookie -- sending lots and lots of love to you all too!! hugs!

[CoreEssence]

lotsa love to you p-o-e! and you too feel good!

~*~


I love Nat King Cole’s rendition of O Holy Night.

I love the word sensate. I appreciate remembering to tune into my sensate—ask myself what’s here now? And tune in.

I love the dissolving of the tension as I bring awareness to that part of my body.

I love making this act of writing, right here, right now, as one of my sacred spaces.

I love bringing my awareness down to the quietness in my body.

I love “Silver Bells,”—it is the perfect song for New York City!

Pausing. Slowing down. Quieting. Oh what a perfect space to be in right before bed! Yes!

May this sacredness spread out to all parts of my body, to all parts of my life. And so, it is!

[Paradise-on-Earth]

[CoreEssence]

It is Winter Solstice! It snowed! It is super cold! It is sunny! Yes, it is the perfect winter solstice! It is the perfect setting for a story set a long time ago with a cook who was maybe a witch, or maybe a healer, or maybe just a grounded woman who loved the natural world! OHH! I Love this day! It is making me feel all these thoughts! And making me think all these feelings! Feeling my thoughts! Thinking my feelings! And also simply feeling my feelings.

I am so grateful for having this vocabulary for emotional fluency. I love how it stands me in such good stead with my 7 yr old. I love how open he is to the nuances of feelings, and of course, to really feel his feelings. I love that after I told him to invited the scariness in, while I held him in my arms, to show it that it wasn’t alone, that it was among friends—happiness,, anger, joy, frustration, contentment—he said he wasn’t scared anymore. It helped him not be scared of scariness. It helped him think thoughts he liked. I love so much beyond words having this deeply felt understanding of emotions. I love my own facility with feelings—I love my sensitivity, I love my emotions, and I absolutely love seeing each time how what I feel negatively) is triggered by the action/the word/the happening. I love this holistic, whole-istic view of feelings I have gained over these last 2.5 yrs of brennan work. I am deeply grateful for all of it.

I love the menu I am thinking of—a root vegetable gratin-ish thing, a quinoa-cauliflower rice preparation done like tamarind rice, a soup—maybe a lentil one since I forgot the ingredients for it!, a gingerbread snacking cake, chocolate sable cookies, and this glorious chocolate-cherry panettone I bought at the market WITH ALL CLEAN INGREDIENTS! I LOVE FINDING A PANNETONE sans enriched this, natural flavors that! Just wheat flour, cherries, eggs, and a bunch of few other ingredients that I UNDERSTAND!

I am looking forward to figuring out where to put the holly and the boughs of greenery. I love all the fairy lights everywhere. I love all the candles. I love making this a special time for myself! And I love how it pulls everyone else in its ambit too, because of course love and joy and excitement and groundedness is contagious! Wait, did I just say I am grounded? ME?! Huh. I did. I am getting there. I really, truly am!!

I am looking forward to jumping in to the wiccan make your own rituals book I bought! I own this part of me that feels like I have been a high priestess in my previous lifetimes. I love how all this energy work lends itself SO NATURALLY to all the witchy aspects of myself!

I am now going to enjoy putting out all the wonderful veggies I hauled in from the market. And, putting all the greens and the holly and the bouquets in water. And put a few more ornaments up in the tree. And then go for a sing-along to the church!

I am joy, and I am excitement, and I am the fullness of contentment. Yes. And so, it is.