Grateful for:
- Absolutely the bestest day ever.
- Visiting Nara, the oldest capital of Japan for a healthy dose of expansive and ancient nature and temples.
- Deer running around everywhere around the historical Nara in the fields, woods, crossing the streets, coming up and sniffing you and you can pet them too. We saw some people getting pushed around by some deer after they fed them some crackers and resolved not to get into the same predicament. But on the way back bought some sweet potato and had some skin left over so decided to feed them after all. I got head butted good by one overly zealous deer while the other one stole the map of Nara from my pocket and ate it. Good thing the kind policemen told us where the station was, would have been stranded without the map otherwise.
- Eating caramel covered strawberry that was one of the most flavorsome strawberries I ever had. Will thinks they soak it in strawberry flavored syrup before cooking it but I think it was the real strawberry taste. I guess in the absence of absolute truth I will believe what makes me feel better, and that it was indeed a really nice strawberry.
- Receiving a lovely Christmas email from one of my dear clients and friends.
- Finishing the Gratitude book I was reading. Having an awesome day and then reading that on the way home filled me with amazing sense of gratitude and awe and I even had a cry at dinner at how good my life is.
- Getting inspired to write a long to do list of things to see/research/find out.
- Installing Remember the Milk to sync my thought catcher (i.e. phone) task list with PC and consequently Gmail.
- Having a wonderful bath.
- Having heightened sense of taste tonight at dinner where every single bite was as if sent from heaven, I took 10 times longer to finish everything and had another cry over how good the nuts tasted.
- Following one the book’s tips, write at least 1 thing you are grateful for about yourself at the end of the day: I am overflowing with gratitude today!
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