I don’t know what it’s like where you live, but the past few days here in Virginia have been horrible. The sun hasn’t come out in three days, it’s rainy, and it’s ridiculously cloudy. And if you know anything about me, you know I hate this kind of weather — not to mention that next month is JUNE and it’s currently 55 degrees outside. Why??

But to counteract my current dissatisfaction with the weather, I thought I would write out some things to be grateful for/some of the things that make me the happiest. After all, what’s the point in focusing on the bad when there’s so many good things in our lives?

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• Clear, blue skies while the Sun is shining but not beating down
• Homemade cake batter ice cream
• Reading The Hunger Games
• Planning fun summer activities with friends I haven’t seen in a while
• Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights at church
• Watching friends from my old ballet studio perform every year
• Getting my favorite drink from Starbucks and going shopping
• Reading books, poems, and short stories written by my INCREDIBLY talented friends in YWW
• Editing people’s writing and seeing their vision to make their story the best it can be

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And here’s some of my favorite quotes too <3

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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work” — Aristotle

“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, sometimes even sentences.” — John Piper

“Always do your best, your best is always good enough” — my kickboxing instructor

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” — J.R.R. Tolkien (LOTR)

“The stars shine brightest in the darkness, Claire. Pixie dust chases back the shadows. Maybe that’s it— maybe that’s what the shadows are all about. Finding the light through them, and…” he tilts his head back. “We all have our shadows to fight, but maybe that’s so we can grow stronger.” — Kara Swanson (Dust)

“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining an affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors, but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.” — G. K. Chesterton

“Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn’t make them unimportant” — Meg March (2019 adaptation of Little Women)

“Pure gold does not fear the fire.” — Nova McBee (Calculated)

“Then maybe growing up doesn’t always mean carving out the magic from your soul. Maybe — just maybe — growing up can be a way of letting your dreams expand, like a falling star becoming a magical island resting in the middle of a galaxy.
Maybe growing up isn’t letting you soul die but entering another adventure.” — Kara Swanson (Dust)

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

“If they won’t write the kind of books we like to read, we shall have to write them ourselves.” — C.S. Lewis

““Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.” — Suzanne Collins

(Also let me know if you guys like this post style, I could start making this a regular thing for the end of every month if you want!)