Here: Five Things Fall

day 1:  Five Words to Take with Me

-   comfort
-   unity
-   peace
-   adventure
-   family

**Bonus Word:**  gratitude

ways I express myself



writing



making photographs



creating pages in my journals



singling along with music/playing my dulcimer



knitting and crocheting

day 7:  here: five things



seen from the windows



trees swaying in the light breeze



spindly spider lilies just beginning to bloom in the front yard



blue skies and white clouds



a few leaves beginning to turn to fall orange, red, and brown



reflections of the woods on the dark pond water

five ways to take a five minute break



read a poem or a psalm (or two)



sip a cup of hot spiced tea



send an email to a long-distance friend just to say "hello"



read a chapter from the current book



walk around the yard and take deep breaths

daya 5:  here: five things



five things I noticed today



the first spider lilies of the fall blooming in the front yard



shifting light with the passing clouds



the chocolatey crunch of Oreo cookies



the white blossoms on the late boneset plans--and how tall they are!

Day 2: things to set down

-   the need for perfection
-   the need to know it all
-   dwelling on the "what if's"
-   the fear of failing to live up to expectations
-   regrets

things that comfort me



a cup of hot spiced tea

Scriptures, especially John 14

walking around the ponds and the lake

listening to music

a warm hug from loved ones

day 4:  here: five things

five favorite people

-   grandson Sully who always "entertains"
-   Gramps, Sr.
-   Mama, who has such wissdom
-   Jackie, who encourages me to grow in faith
-   Grady, who has always encouraged me to grow

day 6: here: five things



Reminders I need today



I am enough.



I am loved.



Take a walk for "vitamin D therapy."



My diabetes does not define me.



The world is beautiful enough.

\`here: five things

day 3: small joys to make room for



good books and stories



music and song



quiet walks outdoors



time with Sully



holding hands

here: five things

lessons I still need to leaern



I am choosing not to post my list. It's in my journal.

things in my middle school bedroom



my sister!

posters of David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Donny Osmond taped inside the wardrobe

a record player with albums by the Archies, the Partridge Family, the Osmonds, and the Carpenters

a cedar wardrobe my great-grandfather made for my mother when she was a girl

my books stacked beside the hot rollers on my dresser