October 31, 2014

One thing I learned today: Try to have some fun.

One thing I'm grateful for: My dino head.

October 30, 2014

One thing I learned today: #staysurly

One thing I'm grateful for: A couple of surly friends.

October 29, 2014

One thing I learned today: My early impressions of people are sometimes incredibly off-base.

One thing I'm grateful for: A productive & educational meeting.

October 28, 2014

One thing I learned today: Coenzyme-Q10 is apparently the shit.

One thing I'm grateful for: A favor from a friend. 

October 27, 2014

One thing I learned today: Oh, hey #8.

One thing I'm grateful for: Tools. Grit. 

October 26, 2014

One thing I learned today: Onesies are the new black.

One thing I'm grateful for: A little novelty to interrupt the flatness.

October 25, 2014

One thing I learned today: I'm really afraid to sit with my mind right now, though I'm not sure that avoidance is always a bad thing.

One thing I'm grateful for: Mini shorty.

October 24, 2014

One thing I learned today: I need to accept reality, treatment and the continuous effort I will need to make. 

One thing I'm grateful for: Biggie.

October 23, 2014

One thing I learned today: I'm really blessed - in a totally secular way.

One thing I'm grateful for: My roommates.

October 22, 2014

One thing I learned today: The cycle continues.

One thing I'm grateful for: Boxing.

October 21, 2014

One thing I learned today: Opening up is rewarding.

One thing I'm grateful for: A reminder to take this seriously.

October 20, 2014

One thing I learned today: It's a little easier to do a little more. 

One thing I'm grateful for: Weird friends. 

October 19, 2014

One thing I learned today: It can take, oh, four months to a year to FULLY recover from quitting caffeine and get back to baseline.    D:

One thing I'm grateful for: Sangha.

October 18, 2014

One thing I learned today: I am incredibly, deeply lonely.

One thing I'm grateful for: Kitten snuggles.   

October 17, 2014

One thing I learned today: Sometimes it just hurts.

One thing I'm grateful for: Check-ups.    

October 16, 2014

One thing I learned today: All about bees. (And gosh darn, now I am worried about those little suckers!)

One thing I'm grateful for: People who are actually interested in the world at large around them and understand that IT is more important than we are as individuals.

October 15, 2014

One thing I learned today: I can tolerate so much more than most others, and I'm so easily irritated by others' intolerance of discomfort. 

EDIT (11/1/14) - I don't like that I wrote this, but I would never change it in the interest of staying honest. This was during a period when I felt I was comparatively suffering more than others, so my mind wanted to find ways in which I was comparatively "better" than them so it felt worth it in some way.

One thing I'm grateful for: Some much needed alone time and promise of a return to more like-minded company.

October 14, 2014

One thing I learned today: "Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always." -Hippocrates

One thing I'm grateful for: A surge of motivation upon returning home. I think this is what vacation is supposed to do.

October 13, 2014

One thing I learned today: I want to feel grounded.

One thing I'm grateful for: Beautiful scents, things and weather.

October 12, 2014

One thing I learned today: Ten clean days and then a trace amount of gluten showed me that this intolerance is very real.

One thing I'm grateful for: The promise of my own kitchen soon, where I can know what's in my food.

October 11, 2014

One thing I learned today: Every year I underestimate my brain. And every year it reminds me what a dire mistake that is.

One thing I'm grateful for: A beautiful sunset, some tears and some time in silence.

October 10, 2014

One thing I learned today: It is hard to be the only one abstaining from something. And hearing people talk about how great that thing is fucking sucks.

One thing I'm grateful for: That someone checked on me today.

October 9, 2014

One thing I learned today:


One thing I'm grateful for: VACATION

October 8, 2014

One thing I learned today: "Know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

One thing I'm grateful for: Healthy treats.  

October 7, 2014

One thing I learned today: It's never to late to start being healthy.  

One thing I'm grateful for: A competitive streak.

October 6, 2014

One thing I learned today: Plans are great, but overreaction to anticipated depression and attempted constant distraction are not.

One thing I'm grateful for: That the very thing that muzzled me left me with the most to say.

October 5, 2014

One thing I learned today: I don't need a doctor's note to do what's best for my health.

One thing I'm grateful for: A very kindred spirit and some new ideas.

October 4, 2014

One thing I learned today: "Everyone in our dreams is us."

One thing I'm grateful for: "Most of us make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is a problem." --> knowing this is so patently untrue.

October 3, 2014

One thing I learned today: Don't google image search horrific deadly infectious diseases when you're already a little tired/flops.   

One thing I'm grateful for: Minds like mine, and the good fortune of having stumbled across a few of them.  

October 2, 2014

One thing I learned today: "The truth about science is that not everybody believes, but it is the truth."

One thing I'm grateful for: Fun goals. ;)

October 1, 2014

One thing I learned today: The only danger in turning the dials is they can get stuck.

One thing I'm grateful for: Day 1 of gluten-free life!  

September 30, 2014

One thing I learned today: I am officially gluten-intolerant and am 100% banned for life.

One thing I'm grateful for: A friend who reminded me that skeptics about this type of thing are generally idiots without a good knowledge base of science & medicine.