Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- the way in which The White Lotus expresses a variety of transactional relationships and the interpersonal dynamics of oppressive behaviour - and inequality! Excellently realised script, and well-performed.
- Those helping those affected in Louisiana, and those affected by Hurricane Ida.
https://weather.com/news/news/2021-08-30-hurricane-ida-how-to-help
- a neighbour's gift of greengages
Today, I am thankful and grateful for
- The life and music of Lee Scratch Perry.
And to have seen him at The Jazz Cafe, Sept. 2017
- A cone shaped top on a church tower
- Open, empty churches. I love the trust it speaks to, and inspires its cultivation in other areas.
Today, and yesterday, I am and have been grateful and thankful for
- having my mother impart the origins for the choice of her first name - Virginia.
Her father chose this name after attending the cinema at the point of her birth, to see the movie - Born Free. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060182/ - which starred Virginia McKenna.
- meeting some lovely new people
- huddled cows under the shade of trees
- a person who was happy to recieve a birthday gift
Today, I am thankful and grateful for
- thinking about buying something, then realising I could make it instead, and did so.
- for crying for the first time in a long while. A compromise of taking antidepressant medication is it can keep a door closed to crying when sometimes it would be helpful and useful. It helps stop me from bottoming out too, so I respect and am grateful for how it helps too.
- the offer of a further job interview with another organisation whose work I have admiration for
Today, I am thankful and grateful for
- Chloë Sevigny. She has a special energy, and has been in some fantastic projects.
- Mary Cook. You made me and Mum smile so much. Utterly loveable.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- the kindness of a stranger, rescuing Mum and I from a walk cut-off by fiesty horses, and leading us on an alternative route. Kim was wonderful company, as was her spaniel.
- The Terminator / Terminator: Judgement Day soundtracks.
- the idea of, and the feel and experience of, Pirate Radio
Today, I am thankful and grateful for
- the film, Gummo (1997)
- the film's director, Harmony Korine
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- the offer of an interview to an organisation I have a lot of respect for
- for the trust of a friend
- Amia Srinivasan
This evening of this day, I am grateful and thankful for
- the swift service of a repeat prescription
- for a shorter turnaround in bracing a hard conversation with someone I care about deeply
- for a lovely walk with a close friend
Today, I am thankful and grateful for,
- the being of TQN-aut, that it happened, for the difference they made and the difference they supported
- the following organisations (UK focussed) supporting the people affected in Afghanistan: AfghanAid, Aryana Aid, Muslim Hands UK, Emergency UK, Tearfund
- Worn physical photos of my mother's parents and grandparents as young people.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- sunshine through the trees onto the old railway track
- a nice long, reading session, and finishing a book
- all those sheltering, protecting & helping the people of Afghanistan, and to those helping to evacuate people safety where they can
Today, I am thankful and grateful for,
- for becoming acquainted with the music of Jana Rush, and that feeling of finding something special
- my friend sharing the some vegetables from her and her partner's allotment.
