August 4, 2026

Generous Tuesday

Tuesday is my day to look at my social and emotional self, and make an effort to shift my perspectives around how I view and treat the people in my life.

We are in the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors, and express gratitude.

Agenda: 
1. My anger journal
2. Read "How to Deal with Anger"
3. Generosity practice

August 3, 2026

Monday

Monday is my day to reset for the week and get my ducks in a row - make some plans for health and home, and how I will step up for the Natural Living Challenge. 

We are in the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors, and express gratitude.

Agenda:
1. Read "How to Keep House While Drowning"
2. Giving Each Thing a Home
3. New food habits

August 2, 2026

Sabbath for Energy

Sunday is my day to be quiet (at least for a while), with the spirit, in contemplation and prayer, and in community with nature and other bipeds.

Today I have a good deal of community interaction, so I'll bolster my soul with time in the garden this morning. The sabbath is a celebration, a holiday - I will keep it holy with my attitude: no complaining, or worrying.

We are in the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors.

Agenda:
1. Read "Your Heart Was Made for This"
2. Discern my receptivity
3. Love meditation
4. Expressing Needs in the World

August 1, 2026

Lughnasa

Lughnasa (loo-na-sa) is a Celtic festival celebrated in early August, usually August 1st. It's called a cross-quarter day because it falls approximately midway between summer solstice and autumn equinox, marking the end of summer in the Celtic tradition, and the beginning of the harvesting season.

The name Lughnasa comes from Lugh, the Celtic God of harvests, crafts, and the lightening flash, and nasad, which was an assembly or gathering. The Lughnasad was a gathering to honor and appease Lugh, so he would hopefully not throw a summer storm temper-tantrum, and ruin the harvest.

All of the cross-quarter days are times of transition from one focus to another. At Lughnasa the shift is from growth to harvest. 

And it's the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors.

Agenda Today:
1. Journal Queries
2. Make bread
3. Arts and Crafts
4. Take a pause to enjoy the season
5. Catch up with planting
6. Nasad (gathering)

July 31, 2026

Friday

Friday is my day for proaction: Proaction is taking initiative to anticipate and shape future events rather than simply reacting to circumstances as they happen. Some people think Covey should've just used the word ACT, but proaction requires a thought: "I could do this or I could do that; I choose to do this."

And I'm still in the thrall of the active full moon phase!

Agenda:
1. Summer action plan
3. Morning ritual
3. Proaction and reciprocity plans

July 30, 2026

Art is Life

Thursday is my day to open the door to creative thinking and doing; I've reverted to an earlier phase of my life, before painting and art school, when I was internally driven to Make Things, and they were varied and creative. But I'm also a different person now - as Grandma Earth Teacher I am led to make things that are a gift to the Earth in some way, sustainable, and with a message. 

Also, I need to prepare for the next week of Grandma Camps, with themes, projects, and field trips.

Agenda: 
1. Read "Tiny Habits"
2. Design a watercolor habit
3. Start a fire for watercolor
4. Camp preparedness
5. Projects for the week