Very Grateful for:

1. God’s Blessings
2. The way a slight summer rain lifts everyone’s mood
3. The Wu family, who came to my yardwork rescue when I managed to slice into the hedge trimmer cord, not once but twice
4. Garrett’s tweet of this post on Embracing Contradiction & the Sacredness of Human Attention: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/20/alfred-kazin-journals-perception-contradiction/
5. Ezekiel bread
6. Air conditioning
7. A parking place close-by
8. Dad, responding better to less medicine
9. the postcards from the trip to New York

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear… Tetsuko Kuroyanagi