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A couple of weeks ago, my workmates and I had a professional development meeting about resilience and how to encourage it on our students. I got A LOT out of it. Not only did I enjoy learning more about how it is so important to model gratitude, empathy, kindness and mindfulness to students, I also came away from it feeling very positive.

In just a short time, I've noticed an improvement in my mindset, just by being more conscious about the importance of gratitude.

Last week, I wrote a list of things I am grateful for on my Instagram and I think I'll try to do that once a week. I noted little things I am grateful for such as:

1. My family

2. Seeing the sun set

3. The company and conversations with work mates

4. The chicken soup I was having for dinner that night

5. The fab snake print boots I was wearing in the photo. (You know me, I couldn't resist!)

I wanted to add some humour to the notion of gratitude because I know it can across as very hippy-trippy.

Anyway, here's some things I am grateful for this week:

1. Finishing my students' reports.

2. Having found season 1-7 of Dallas (the 70s T.V series) secondhand on eBay. I watched all 13 seasons a few years ago and I'm enjoying re-watching it again. I'm up to the infamous episode in season 3 known as 'Who Shot J.R?' 

3. This cat pot plant holder. I bought it for $2 from a local who sells plants in their front garden. It's so cute!

4. Reading 'No One Gets Out Here Alive', a biography on Jim Morrison. You may remember how I wrote about how I recently discovered The Doors in this post. I'm really enjoying reading it before bed each night. For a rock bio, it's not what I expected. It's very intellectual in the beginning and I was surprised to learn that Jim Morrison considered himself to be more of a poet thank a rock star and was very interested in the work of Nietzsche, who I had never heard of before. I've only read a third of the book and so far the authors have painted him to be a bit of a crazy, unusual character. And by character, I mean that I haven't got a sense of him as a person yet. I also found (the drummer) John Densmore's autobiography at a market a few weeks ago. I'll get to it in time.

Another thing I'm thankful for is being part of this vintage blogging community. After reading vintage style blogs for years, I finally decided to join in last year. I really appreciated Shiela mentioning me and her kind words on her blog and it made me realise how glad I am to be blogging. It makes me feel creative - I love writing and sharing my passions with you.

Alright, this is all a bit hippy-trippy, isn't it? Thanks for sticking around. See you next weekend in a new blog post.

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Title: Soul Kitchen by The Doors.