Today's gratitude list captured many moments from the weekend that delighted me to no end and keep me smiling even this morning. There were other cool moments, but these were the ones which most captured my imagination......and bubbled my creativity and soulful connection.

By the way, when I write about certain moments when I am engaging in activity where I drink alcohol, please note I am not abusing alcohol, my father was an alcoholic... I was consciously using alcohol to explore my art. My character in "Picnic" spends time being drunk, so I have been purposefully imbibing and learning lessons and then sobering up and moving along.

I didn't want it to seem like I was glorifying the habitual, purposeless act of getting drunk... SO! that said....

1.   Drunken Writing at Denny's to sober up after a delightful evening carousing with Althea and Viola and their friend, I think her name was Patti.

2.   The Stand Up Comedian (I didn’t catch his name and Googling isn’t helping!) at "The Empty Space" quoting Henry David Thoreau.

3.   Coryn’s concern for me during the Stand-Up show.  "He used that word, a lot – the one that upsets you}", she said, “I peeked through the curtain to make sure you were ok.”  Now that’s a friend.

4.   Seeing my Purple-Haired portrait on the Wall-of-Infamy for the (Burn the witch) art show this Saturday. I was so happy to see it.. and to re-read what I had written in my Artist’s Statement… a magical moment.

5.   "Research" = drunk dancing. This weekend I wrote drunk, I danced drunk… it was a drunken activity weekend.  It was ALL good.

6.   Deleting all of Dan’s info from my cell phone.  That was an empowering, perfectly centered and no emotions moment that gave energy to truly moving along, moving forward and being happier than I have ever been.

7.   Attending the birthday party of one of my favorite now-two-year-olds.  I don’t normally relish parties of children who are this age, but this one reminded me of the abundant cycle of life and the deep love and respect I share with more people than my brain allows me to fathom…. And I enjoyed bringing Maryallysan with my family… since she feels like family.

8.   Finding those glorious sari’s at goodwill and buying one for Emma, which will make a perfect costume many times over.

9.   Sheila bringing in the most glorious dress for me to wear in "Picnic" and Barry actually APPROVING it. I will wear that baby through curtain call and meet-and-greet… it is ALMOST as cool as the Farndale dress Deb made for me… almost. The dress that got applause. Oh, now THAT was funny.

10. Sam calling me a Comedic Genius.  It was worth almost breaking character last night to know how much he enjoys watching me do my thing on stage, being funny one minute and then driving home the drama later on. I haven’t been called a genius much in my life, so I’ll take this one……..

11.  I came up with my September-Theme-of-the-Month while writing my morning pages today... "Awaken Awareness to Invite Abundance"... I like it, I like it, hooray! Another white-canvas Monday morning!