Small Joys of 2021

Thanks to Rae at Powerful Women Readers for tagging me in this fun meme last year. I enjoyed it so much last year (see last year's post here) that I decided to do it this year, too. We are being asked to list 15 Small Joys in our lives, then tag 5 other bloggers who bring us joy. Here goes:

Upper left hand corner, clockwise: My husband and I are fully vaccinated; my wonderful swim class resumes; Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series on Zoom; horse riding at grandson Wyatt's 2nd birthday; baking joys, especially pies; we finally get to visit our son and his wife and her parents in Chicago; our vegetable garden; baking with grandchildren Annie and Wyatt; our new granddaughter, Bailey; we hike in Arkansas; ten year celebration of our book club; the fun of my Little Free Library; new mural in town, viewed on one of our daily walks; a Monarch seen during our weekly butterfly monitoring; and a Carolina Wren seen during Project FeederWatch. 

I tag anyone who would like to reflect upon the small joys of this year, and I leave you with a bit of this lovely poem...

Thanks by W. S. Merwin:

"Listen

with the night falling we are saying thank you

we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings

we are running out of the glass rooms

with our mouths full of food to look at the sky

and say thank you..."