All posts by Katharine

Gratitude

1. God
2. Sleeping late
3. My friends naming and counting their blessings
4. Coffee from Emily to enjoy while it brews
5. 365 new days
6. Values
7. Cassie and I each lifting Kyelle in through her window when she was locked out of her apartment. Teamwork, on an icy cold night.
8. Hearts and minds
“It’s so strange the way we live our lives in sorrow,
And the way we let the happiness slip by;
For our eyes are always fixed upon the morrow,
While today is in the corner of our eye.
…..
I was looking for tomorrow when you found me.
My heart was anywhere but in today.
Now the magic of the moment’s all around me,
And I hear the words I always longed to say:
You are in my heart and in my mind.
Now I’ve known your love, I want no other kind.
I can feel your power shining through,
And I’m lost in the love of loving you.”
Tom Paxton, “The Love of Loving You”

Gratitude

1. God
2. Even though I don’t like some of the songs on the radio, grateful for the radio waves and frequency and electronics
3. Doubt and its benefits
4. Cassie’s generosity and thoughtfulness, remembering gifts for the neighbors, postman and the newspaper delivery person (who has perfect aim)
5. Fast tempi
6. Songs of longing
7. and appreciation
8. and remembrance
9. Robert Burns and his cup of kindness and other things

Gratitude

1. God
2. Colors of time
3. A gal named January (she doesn’t like the cold)
4. Another gal named Crissy or Christy or maybe there’s K there and her face is the light of welcome and enjoyment
5. Comfortable chairs
6. The gate
7. Square windows that look round
8. Something higher
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.” Antonio Porchia, Voices

Gratitude

1.God
2. Watching the Music Man with family. I hadn’t seen it all the way through, hard to imagine. Wouldn’t I want to be Robert Preston with his dance moves wooing Shirley Jones in “Marian the Librarian.” And isn’t Shirley Jones otherwordly.
3. Mothers of America, let your kids go to the movies. I’ll never forget David laughing at Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times when he was younger and even though he was less enthused about the Music Man, he laughed and appreciated the jokes and enjoyed himself. Hannah expressed concern that this would not end well because they couldn’t play their instruments and the music man couldn’t really teach them. Emily wouldn’t agree to Cassie singing along so she retreated elsewhere to sing her favorites like goodnight my someone at certain intervals.
4. When family come and go
5. When the streets are relatively quiet, with no school and fewer people going to work
6. Sentences starting up (this isn’t one)
7. Array
8. Bones for Peabody (Snoopy used to bury and catalog his, like with the date 7/31/64 or whatever)
9. Letting sleeping dogs lie
10. Catnip in high places

Gratitude

1. God
2. Quiet days
3. Concord, Massachusetts in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
4. When dogs run free. Especially Peabody seeing him so happy
5. David sings Christmas carols
6.sounds of Emily and her friends inside
7. Joy of giving
8. And just walking around
9. Cats that claim you
10. Brilliant sunrise

Gratitude

1. God
2. Hannah and Emily baking cookies
3. Oliver stopped by
4. Many Christmas cards
5. Turning around and going in the direction I needed to go, in spite of heavy traffic and scarce room to park
6. Gentle sleep
7. Peabody arrives to wake me early and I can let him out in the yard where he is content
8. The family gathering around
9. Merry Christmas

Gratitude

1. God
2. Morning view of the city
3. Attention
4. One at a time
5. Consolation of gratitude
6. Connecting with Hannah
7. Our dog would like to meet your dog
8. Bedside light and books to read amidst troubled sleep
9. Letting things come and go
“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” Antonio Porchia, Voices