This latest biweekly question from the most excellent 
Life is pretty sorted after all, but I still just focus mainly on working - online and on the land, and don't really 'celebrate' very much at all.
So little in fact that I've been meaning to do a list of things I enjoy doing, rather than work, for many, many years, but just never really got around to doing it, so how am I going to celebrate life going towards?
My traditional means of celebrating is to have a beer or six, or ten now I'm in Portugal because the beers here are so very, very small, and lots of junk food to go with said beer, but I'm trying to ween myself off that habit as I can't sustain that and my beach body, which I'll need for summer, or rather which I stand a chance of getting back by next summer if I do ease off said beers.
So, how am I going to celebrate life sans beer?
TBH I think it's just about getting the basics right, I'm not one for partaying as a means of celebration, I can celebrate life by just doing ordinary day to day things and finding wonder in them, so here's four ways I plan to celebrate life:
ONE: Observing nature
This is kind of a meditative activity in itself, but also something I need to allow myself do more often going forwards. I've spent so long clearing my land that now it's time to just observe, walk about, and plan which brings me onto number two....
TWO: Planning and working on the land at an appropriate pace
I think my land project is a celebration of life in itself - I'm settling on the strategy of 'forest first' and working with the land to establish a diverse 'food forest plus' - I don't just want food, I want lots of nice trees in there, so planning and planting and cultivating are very much going to be part of the next two to three years of my life, which is about as celebratory as you can get if you ask me!
THREE: Enjoying my basic chores such as cleaning
I'm not sure where I read it, but it is was in some Buddhist text somewhere - the idea that when you clean you should do it as if you think it's the last thing you ever do with your life, in which case you may as well celebrate it and enjoy it.
Of course you can apply this to any activity, but somehow it seems very appropriate to cleaning as well as a whole host of other basic chores.
This is more of a challenge than something I do - if I can celebrate washing and changing the bedsheets, genuinely then I'm enlightened!
FOUR: Just sitting there every morning and evening
YES, meditating - there's no better way of celebrating life than just sitting there and not-doing and letting whatever comes out come out - the truest celebration by getting yourself out of the way!
FINAL THOUGHTS: KEEP IT SIMPLE
Life was never meant to be complicated, better to spend time getting yourself out of the way and allowing yourself to enjoy its simplicity and appreciate its complexity, rather than dwelling in self-imposed complicatedness.
So for me celebrating life is about allowing myself to life simply!
And taking it easy more often!