{"id":10078,"date":"2015-05-23T08:50:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2015-05-23T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T15:48:48","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10078","title":{"rendered":"Thank you #58"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe moment I let go of it was the moment
\nI got more than I could handle
\nThe moment I jumped off of it
\nWas the moment I touched down. 
\n–Alanis Morrissette\/Thank U<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone chastised me recently for focusing too much on the things that are wrong about my life instead of the stuff that is wonderful.   My rationalization, of course, is that I *do* focus on the good stuff in real life, but I tend not to write about it as much. The good stuff is working, I don’t need to write about it to figure it out.<\/p>\n

Still. He is right. I am overdue for an acknowledgement of the awesome.<\/p>\n

The purple rhodedendron in my back yard is looking gorgeous right now.<\/p>\n

The lawn is very green.<\/p>\n

My friends continue to be the the best people in the world.<\/p>\n

I have had several really intense, meaningful conversations with people in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

I’m halfway through reading a book that someone suggested because it reminded him of me…and I can actually see why. How often does that happen??<\/p>\n

I made a particularly good batch of cold extract coffee, and I am drinking a cup of it right now, and staring out at the drizzy day recognizing that the universe has just given me an excuse to read another book. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow I am going to meet someone I’ve been looking forward to meeting for some time now, so I have all that lovely anticipation energy going. <\/p>\n

The cat has finally quit scratching at the bedroom door in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

My elbow feels a little better.<\/p>\n

My kitchen is a disaster area, but I don’t care because there are roses blooming outside the kitchen window. <\/p>\n

It is almost Summer. The days are getting longer. The grills are coming out. I can hear lawn mowers on Saturday mornings again. The smell of cut grass.<\/p>\n

I have a lawn service, so I am not cutting my own grass.<\/p>\n

The smell of charcoal in the evening.<\/p>\n

Over all?<\/p>\n

Blue skies, gray skies, rain and sun,  my friends and family, connections, people, people, people, water and mountains, laughter and tears, music and silence. <\/p>\n

The world exactly as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The moment I let go of it was the moment I got more than I could handle The moment I jumped off of it Was the moment I touched down.  –Alanis Morrissette\/Thank U Someone chastised me recently for focusing too much on the things that are wrong about my life instead of the stuff that … Continue reading Thank you #58<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2Cy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10316,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10316","url_meta":{"origin":10078,"position":0},"title":"Sitting here watching the wheels go round…","author":"Michelle","date":"July 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The water is going lap, lap, lap.\u00a0 The sun is trying to come out.\u00a0 The air smells salty and briney\u00a0 More ambitious people than I am are out on the Sound in their boats.\u00a0 Stephen is at the zendo being in his moment.\u00a0 I'm sitting at the bulkhead wall just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Random thoughts"","block_context":{"text":"Random thoughts","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=20"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8581,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8581","url_meta":{"origin":10078,"position":1},"title":"An imaginary conversation about having nothing to say","author":"Michelle","date":"December 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"You know what is hard for me? 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