Following in Oprah’s footsteps I’ve just started a GRATEFULNESS JOURNAL and every day I’m going to find at least five things I am grateful for. Easy really, because I wake every day grateful for all the opportunities that are just waiting to be seized. To be specific, today I’m grateful for:
1. The rain that is falling right now... may the grass be greener in a few days.
2. The eleven, yes ELEVEN pink roses blooming on my father’s memorial rose bush I planted when he died back in 2005.
3. The phone call I received not long ago from my dear friend Terri Janke who is in Tahiti celebrating the French-language release of her brilliant novel Butterfly Song – check it out at: http://www.terrijanke.com.au/ButterflySong/index.htm.
4. The opportunity to spend some time today researching a Nyoongah/ Noongar literary trail as part of my job with Black Words: Aboriginal Writers and Storytellers research community: http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/BlackWords
5. Watching television that makes me laugh. The scripts for Two and a Half Men are so clever.
Anita's blog is largely about gratefulness - hers and others - but she also posts about things important to her including books, reading, literacy and Aboriginal arts and culture. The above photo was taken by Tammy Law at Anita's TEDx talk in Brisbane, 2013.
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