04 June 2026

choosing a grateful attitude

  • cracker barrel giftcards and yaya's points
  • slept pretty much the whole way to SSI
  • moonrise
  • special place with special people
  • night 1 crab trap
  • epworth...chimes...family...spontaneous cornhole....
  • nick's dedication to getting and delivering dulce dough
  • good cuppa coffee at community church
  • incredible kitty (+) care from the kind and generous llcooljm (with daily pictorial updates)
  • zoe roundabouting the tree
  • bike ride(s) with caroline
  • first zinnia!
  • ben's quick responses
  • big ole sam's haul
  • best porch view
  • beach naps and reads and walks and sits
  • easy smoothies
  • pastor nick doing a little post-church preaching
  • how much zoe loves "the sea"
  • skip balls and ocean mats
  • just write liturgies from EMH
  • meals around the table at the thompson cottage
  • windy walks
  • epworth sunsets...porpoises included 
  • wind that takes the gnats away
  • ice + cherry coke + yeti (again and again and again)
  • continuing to choose a grateful one
  • the blood medleyed with washed
  • sweet little beach reads
  • the glory (and simplicity) of sweet mama's (and decades of sonny's delights)