Day: January 19, 2026

Daily Gratitude 1-19-26

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January 19th, 2026

  • “I am thankful my husband puts out the rowing machine each night as a caretaker of our health and wellness. This allows me to get up early and take care of my own well being first thing in the morning by getting in my workout. Thank you my love!❤️ (Heather Houston 1-19-26)
  • “Grateful we had leftover sourdough pancakes from yesterday’s breakfast to enjoy today for breakfast.” (Heather Houston 1-19-26)
  • “I appreciate my husband making up the bacon to go with my morning pancakes.” (Heather Houston 1-19-26)
  • “I am blessed to have a healthy active body which can row 5000m in 27:15 which created a 12.7 strain (1 minute @ 162 bpm; 11 minutes @ 152-161 bpm; 6 minutes @ 142-151 bpm; 5 minutes @ 132-141 bpm; 1 minute @ 111-131 bpm & 1 minute <11 bpm).” (Heather Houston 1-19-26)
  • Grateful we returned to our World Tour of Soup and made a Thai soup (Lemongrass Chicken with Coconut Soup) (Heather Houston 1-19-26)
  • “I am thankful for my early morning cuddle time with my partner before finally having to get up at 4:00AM. Thank you honey.”♥️ (Heather Houston 1-19-22)
  • “I am grateful I make enough money to buy a homeless kid a breakfast this morning. He was sitting with his sign at the McDonald’s Drive-thru. I think I startled him when I asked if I could buy him breakfast. We should all take notice of our sisters and brothers more often  to help when we can.” (Heather Houston 1-19-22)
  • “I am thankful my commute home was not wall-to-wall traffic.” (Heather Houston 1-19-22)
  • “I appreciate my partner sharing some of his fries at dinner so I could dip them in my chocolate milkshake. 🍟YUM!!!” (Heather Houston 1-19-22)
  • “I am blessed to have the world’s best dog in my life. Who plays a night game with me to see who can beat one another to bed. Tonight I won!!!”🏆 (Heather Houston 1-19-22)

My Musical Life 1-19-26

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January 19th, 2026

#3 Honey (Bobby Goldsboro) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
See the tree, how big it’s grown
But friend it hasn’t been too long
It wasn’t big
I laughed at her and she got mad,
The first day that she planted it
Was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she ran out
To brush the snow away
So it wouldn’t die
Came runnin’ in all excited
Slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried🪄
She was always young at heart
Kinda dumb and kinda smart
And I loved her so
And I surprised her with a puppy
Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago
And it would sure embarrass her
When I came in from workin’ late
‘Cause I would know
That she’d been sittin’ there and cryin’
Over some sad and silly late, late show🪄
And honey, I miss you and I’m bein’ good
And I’d love to be with you if only I could🪄
She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I’d be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly
And caught her cryin’ needlessly
In the middle of a day
And it was in the early spring
When flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away🪄
And honey, I miss you and I’m bein’ good
And I’d love to be with you if only I could🪄
One day while I was not at home
While she was there and all alone
The angels came
Now all I have is memories of honey
And I wake up nights and call her name
Now my life’s an empty stage
Where honey lived and honey played
And love grew up
And a small cloud passes overhead
And cries down on the flower bed
That honey loved🪄
And see the tree how big it’s grown
But friend it hasn’t been too long
It wasn’t big
And I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it
Was just a twig

My Abundant Life 1-19-26

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January 19th, 2026

Joy: Learning Life’s Lessons with a Light Heart

“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must someshere rest on pure joy.”

Louise Bogan (American Poet; August 11th, 1897 ~ February 4th, 1970)

“We learn each day how cultivating gratitude tills the soil of our soul and then how the seeds of simplicity and order send their roots down deep into the earth of our everyday existence. As we progress, harmony inspires us with quiet courage to create an authentic life for ourselves and those we love. With patience, beauty blossoms and our hearts experience not only happiness, which is often fleeting, but a wellspring of joy that refreshes and renews. We have found our true place in the world.”

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”

William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet; April 7th, 1770 ~ April 23rd, 1850)

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. But this requires a profound inner shift in our reality. Many of us unconsciously create dramas in our minds, expecting the worse from a situation only to have our expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Inadvertently, we become authors of our own misfortune. And so we struggle from day to day, from crisis to crisis, bruised and battered by circumstances without realizing that we always have a choice.”

“Oh geez! I am committed to living in the present, even if I struggle with the human tendency to look back and use my “evidence” to support why financial scarcity looms in my life. I do have a choice and I am committed through my daily gratitude practice to see the abundance in my life ongoingly. Access to abundance is a choice that I may fulfill if I allow myself to see it and create it as a possibility.” (Heather Houston 1-19-22)

“Wow has my shift occurred in an unexpected way and it is DIVINE! I see abundance all around me in everything I do everything I see and every possibility I create. BEing is the juice of life with the story on tape playing in your head. It is true freedom and true access to happiness.” (Heather Houston 1-19-26)

“But what if you learned how to stop the dramas and started to trust the flow of life and the goodness of Spirit? What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn’t it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? For many of us this is such a radical departure from the way we have been behaving that it seems unbelievable. Yet it is possible. Suspend your disbelief. Take a leap of faith. After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?”

“Well living in lack and upset is no way to “LIVE”. I will need to be mindful as I have a deeply rooted bad habit. I am committed to living in the present, relishing what I do have and forecasting the best of scenarios for experiences, circumstances, tasks, etc.” (Heather Houston 1-19-22)

“Beingness is a learned skill that I have honed and find it easier to remain in longer and longer throughout the day. A true transformation is possible with intentional effort and attention.” (Heather Houston 1-19-26)

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 19-20 of 501.

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