Yesterday I refinished our dining room table. It’s a project that’s been on my to-do list for over a year now, so it felt especially good to do it. It was also fairly meditative, and created a good space for me to think and reflect. Refinishing a table is pretty simple; you sand off the old, and then you paint on a few fresh new shiny coatings and voila! If only life was so simple.  Then again, maybe it is.

What if you had one of those “bad days” and you’re feeling a bit low. If, at the end of the day, you sat down and thought about 3 things you were grateful for, wouldn’t you be “refinishing” your day? Maybe you’d be going to bed with some of those negative feelings sanded off and replaced by a slightly shinier coat. Maybe we should all have Thanksgiving every night.