100. 100 things. last but not least. the woman, the book and page that started my gratitude journey.
100. "simple abundance: a daybook of comfort and joy" by sarah ban breathnach.

i love this book. it is a book of days, a return to the basic, simple abundance in our lives. a gift in 1996....and ever since.

january 14th is the page that changed my life. seriously. i've kept a gratitude journal since 1996. that's a long time. part of that time, my journal was typed out--online, part handwritten--in books.
at a women's retreat that year--1996, i led a session on gratitude journals.

this is the journal from that weekend. i know when that retreat was from the journal entries tucked inside. so much has happened in fourteen years.
it's funny, i'm still most grateful for the same things now as I was then--plus another son to love.
best
deborah