{"id":917,"date":"2019-03-28T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/?p=917"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:23:29","slug":"gratitude-journal-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/2019\/03\/28\/gratitude-journal-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude Journal #10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apparently, you can train your brain to be happier by keeping\na gratitude journal, so I am giving it a go. My goal is post about 100 things I\nam grateful for over the course of the year. (This should average out to just a\nlittle over 2\/week.) However, I am going to try and stay away from the standard\nfamily\/friends\/pets. Please know I absolutely am grateful for my family,\nfriends, and pets. I would not have made it through the past couple of year\nwithout each of them. But if I am trying to train myself to be happier, then I\nwant to start recognizing the smaller things in life that I am grateful for.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, I was grateful for modern conveniences that make\nour lives so much simpler. This week, spring has truly hit the Seattle area,\nand I am grateful for those bits of nature that are still in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gratitude Entry #20 \u2013\nBunny Rabbits & Raccoons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every morning, I walk from the bus stop through campus to my\nbuilding. Right now it is spring, and with the change to DST, we are just past\ndawn, in the first hour of morning light when I make my walk. And so, this week\nI have seen bunnies and raccoons along with the normal geese, seagulls, and\nducks, as I make my way through campus. The bunnies are, of course, cute, but\ngenerally in a hurry to get away from people, unless they are frozen in place.
\nThe raccoons are the best. This week, I first saw one running across the wide grassy\nlawn, from one stand of trees to another. He kept looking back over his\nshoulder. When I got to where I had seen him come out of the bushes, there were\ntwo other raccoons there. I looked at them and asked \u201cDid you chase him away?\u201d\nOne of them tossed it\u2019s head and turned around, going back into the bushes. The\nother ignored me entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gratitude Entry #21 \u2013\nCherry Blossoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our campus is known for it\u2019s cherry blossoms. They bloom every year right around spring break. This year, they are in bloom during spring break, which means that while campus is not full of students, it is full of tourists and people who are trying to get professional pictures taken. This is true even in years when the skies are gray when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, but even more so when the weather is beautiful, like today.
Still, even with all these extra people on campus, it is a great joy to go take a walk around the quad (gotta start getting my steps back in), and enjoy the cherry blossoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently, you can train your brain to be happier by keeping a gratitude journal, so I am giving it a go. My goal is post about 100 things I am grateful for over the course of the year. (This should average out to just a little over 2\/week.) However, I am going to try and stay away from the standard family\/friends\/pets. Please know I absolutely am grateful for my family, friends, and pets. I would not have made it through the past couple of year without each of them. But if I am trying to train myself to be happier, then I want to start recognizing the smaller things in life that I am grateful for. Last week, I was grateful for modern conveniences that make our lives so much simpler. This week, spring has truly hit the Seattle area, and I am grateful for those bits of nature that are still in our lives. Gratitude Entry #20 \u2013 Bunny Rabbits & Raccoons Every morning, I walk from the bus stop through campus to my building. Right now it is spring, and with the change to DST, we are just past dawn, in the first hour of morning light when I make my walk. And so, this week I have seen bunnies and raccoons along with the normal geese, seagulls, and ducks, as I make my way through campus. The bunnies are, of course, cute, but generally in a hurry to get away from people, unless they are frozen in place. The raccoons are the best. This week, I first saw one running across the wide grassy lawn, from one stand of trees to another. He kept looking back over his shoulder. When I got to where I had seen him come out of the bushes, there were two other raccoons there. I looked at them and asked \u201cDid you chase him away?\u201d One of them tossed it\u2019s head and turned around, going back into the bushes. The other ignored me entirely. Gratitude Entry #21 \u2013 Cherry Blossoms Our campus is known for it\u2019s cherry blossoms. They bloom every year right around spring break. This year, they are in bloom during spring break, which means that while campus is not full of students, it is full of tourists and people who are trying to get professional pictures taken. This is true even in years when the skies are gray when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, but even more so when the weather is beautiful, like today. Still, even with all these extra people on campus, it is a great joy to go take a walk around the quad (gotta start getting my steps back in), and enjoy the cherry blossoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":912,"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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gratitude"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190328_130600-e1578073589806.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75MAh-eN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}