Mindful Monday


Taking my own recommendation, I realized I have another book I haven’t used but once on here, Hey, Thanks: A Guided Gratitude Journal.

I found this page that you might reflect on and answer (in comments or only to yourself):

I thought it fit in with the mindful theme of “be who you are in this moment.” So I found a coloring page in this book:

And colored it for you.

The quote on the back of the page, from “Unknown,” says, “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

Wonders of the world


Another little journal I found last year sometime and plucked off the shelf today, having forgotten it. This one I’ll call “Hey Thanks” is a guided gratitude journal. There are some exercises provided to help the journal keeper record what s/he’s grateful for, and sometimes topics are given.

I flipped the book open at random and did this one. I mean, there are a ton of wonders in the world, and most of them I haven’t seen. So I tried to come up with a geologic feature that stirs me emotionally, and animals in general and one specific, and then something purely selfish that might not seem like a “wonder” to others, but would open new worlds to me and help me write.

Hope this is readable. Any wonders you’ve dreamed of experiencing?