{"id":2827,"date":"2011-11-25T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2011-11-25T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T15:31:49","slug":"my-gratitude-list-pink-and-green-friday-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2011\/11\/my-gratitude-list-pink-and-green-friday-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"My Gratitude List, Pink and Green Friday, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The whole Black Friday thing scares me. Just the name alone conjures up images of medieval plagues and stock market crashes. The next image that comes to mind is small children being trampled by greedy shoppers storming the gates of Made-In-China Chain Store [insert favorite name here] to procure the latest big screen TV sets for cheap.<\/p>\n

A much better idea is Small Business Saturday<\/a>, where people can support local entrepreneurs and actually return dollars to their own communities. And purchase something truly special.<\/p>\n

But since it is still Friday, I\u2019ve decided to rename today Pink and Green Friday. Just because. Yes, pink and green are my favorite colors, but happily, they also represent good causes\u2014supporting breast cancer research and clean energy, for two. So maybe this is a better way to carry over our good feelings from Thanksgiving, to think about generosity and gratitude, instead of greed.<\/p>\n

I admit, I am a day late expressing my thanks properly. I had an overwhelming feeling of gratitude all day yesterday, but that didn\u2019t translate over to sitting down at the computer. And today I thought, well, it is good to be reminded of how healing gratitude is on any old day, especially something called Black (I mean Pink and Green) Friday.<\/p>\n

So I went out in the garden and took random photos of small things I am grateful for. And decided I\u2019d write a \u201csnapshot\u201d gratitude list. (A wise woman once gave me this idea\u2014writing a gratitude list is an effective mood-switcher if you\u2019re feeling off.) Figure you could do this any day, anywhere, any time of the day. (Yesterday my gratitude was all about chocolate cream pie. And making gravy with Roy\u2026taking walks with Farmer\u2026setting a pretty table\u2026playing Scrabble\u2026eating my own home-grown veggies\u2026a lot of different things.)<\/p>\n

In the garden this morning, I was grateful for:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> The beauty of the silvery, sparkly frost; the promise of changing seasons<\/p>\n

2. <\/strong>Our compost pile (it worked!); adding yesterday\u2019s scraps to the new pile<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> The cold frame\u2014and the happy lettuce inside<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> The perky bed of arugula, still thriving under the row cover<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> The fact that I didn\u2019t pull up all the Brussels sprouts, that the cold must finally have gotten the cabbage warms and that maybe we can eat some sprouts now<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> A sunny day to hang the clothes out on the line<\/p>\n

7.<\/strong> Roy\u2019s woodstove firing up in the barn<\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> Happy chickens, colorful feathers radiant in the low morning light<\/p>\n

9. <\/strong>Feeding Cocoa Bunny frosty kale leaves and breaking the thin layer of ice on her water bowl with warm water<\/p>\n

10. <\/strong>Volunteer cilantro, flourishing parsley, sturdy rosemary, all still alive for the pickin\u2019<\/p>\n

11. <\/strong>Yes, those darn rutabagas\u2014one the size of a football now<\/p>\n

12. <\/strong>The view of the fields I never get tired of\u2014especially looking out at the open space where the garden will grow into next year<\/p>\n

13.<\/strong> A new garden shed donated by a neighbor; an old wheelbarrow salvaged; all our friends and neighbors who help make the garden possible<\/p>\n

14. <\/strong>Leaves for Libby to jump in when she gets here<\/p>\n

15<\/strong>. The blueberry bushes we planted for next year<\/p>\n

16. <\/strong>That spunky baby bok choy plant that has survived all odds<\/p>\n

17.<\/strong> All my little tools bundled up in the handsome trug Roy made<\/p>\n

18.<\/strong> Tables set up all around the yard for me (by you know who) to arrange all the contents of the 32 boxes of books I retrieved from storage\u2014cookbook sale tomorrow!<\/p>\n

Less stuff, more vegetables. That\u2019s my mantra for Pink and Green Friday.<\/p>\n

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