The Small Joys Tag 2022

 

Thanks to Rae at Powerful Women Readers for tagging me in this fun meme for the first time in 2020. I enjoyed it so much then (see that post here) that I decided to do it in 2021, too (see last year's post here) and I'm doing it again this year.

We are being asked to list 15 Small Joys in our lives, then tag 5 other bloggers who bring us joy. Here goes:

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...

My Small Joys (from top left spiraling around to center): Visiting my son and daughter-in-law in Chicago; finding fossils in Montana; staying in the Loire Valley in France; our naturalist group doing an event in inner-city Houston; my Aunt Karen moves back to Texas; my 95-year-old dad and his wife; my whole family gets together; butterfly monitoring; journaling; my first great-grandchild; grandchildren Annie and Wyatt; my friend Lisa beats breast cancer; I go to Paris; baking fun; new floors; Wrigley Field.

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..."