Very Grateful for~

God’s travel plans

Suitcases with wheels

A backup suitcase b/c… it did happen: suitcases do break!

That the breakage happened before it was too late

as breakages often do…

Lori, who upgraded me when I didn’t deserve it…

To a cubby all my own (usually reserved for the crew)

The full moon in the sky at 30,000 feet, looking as if veiled with pale pink gossamer

Two women, typical of Texas, introducing themselves and sharing their lives

Realizing theirs was not intrusion but a desire to form community, even at an airport gate.

Garrett’s supportive support

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dozing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness. ~David Hume

Very Grateful for~

God’s gardens

Kind words

Camaraderie

“Free Book Night” in our town. Books were given to anyone who wanted them!

Reading the clock incorrectly and then finding out that I have an extra hour!!!

This fact helps to negate the frustration when I find a Kleenex in a thousand little white pieces in the dryer.

Crock pots

JeanG.’s comment, “The mending is beginning”

This statement, seen on Pinterest, “If the whole world was a pizza supreme, I’d be the jelly bean topping!”

What you give to others will always empower you. It’s the process that makes you rich. ~Graham Cooke

Very Grateful for~

God’s resolutions

Amelia, ordering for me at the restaurant

…and paying for dinner!

Smiles

Sweet singing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQuZd14ZIJ4

First responders

Emergency personnel

The realization that when anger enters, gratitude vacates

Back-to-school clothes (!)

Garrett and Cassie

The circumstances of life, the events of life, and the people around me in life, do not make me the way I am, but reveal the way I am. ~Dr. Sam Peeples

Very Grateful for~

God’s books

soft pillows

a day writing webpages

and little videos

Amelia’s teriyaki chicken

mineral water

wonderful things teachers are doing

and cantaloupe

an acceptance letter

Don’t be angry with me if I am not there in person, alive and well, when you need me……… where-ever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on. ~Arthur Ashe, in a letter to his daughter

Very Grateful for~

God’s reliability

Amelia, being able to take a day off

being driven to the procedure

seeing blue bonnets on the way

smart doctors

and smart nurses

and the relief that it is over

Pancakes now (I mean, Now!)

…and cantaloupe

Live your life to inspire others, inspiration comes from within. Inspire yourself. Be inspired by your own life. ~Bernice Ende

God’s reliability

Libraries, (on this day in 1833, America’s first tax-supported public library opened, in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Today, there are more than 9,000 public libraries in the United States)

Paying a bill over the phone

Cantaloupe

Towels

Water

Silvia

Caramels

Soft cotton

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library~Jorge Luis Borges

Very Grateful for~

God’s Poetry

Fresh juice in the morning

A nice neighborhood chat

The

And their pets

Poems

Jack Johnson music

The word, “imaginative”

This video on happy people responding with kindness

Very Grateful for~

God’s Poetry

Alia’s Ripples of Inspiration

National Poetry Month

Warm potato soup

this TEDx talk on Surrender by Dr. Judith Orloff

Kioni Popcorn Marshall, a prodigy poet, and only 10 years old

The images evoked in this poem, Primavera

smiles

the unique green of newly sprouting grass

…How beautiful the blossoms are—emblems of the resilience of life. The birds approach eagerly. ~Louise Glick, Primavera

Very Grateful for~

God’s Blessings

Finding out that it’s not that difficult

Tiffany back on the tennis courts

The immense, healing capability of our body

Lori’s new job

An interview for me tomorrow

Sea bass

Fresh juice with stuff that I don’t like to eat but love to drink!

These breaths

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden Tower

Very Grateful for~

God’s Blessings

Questions

Work to do

Fresh juice

Mary’s pistachio biscotti

The girls at the cleaners finding all the clothes and getting the order correct

A new coffee stand finally opening

Finishing the admission packet

Garrett’s quote from Anne Lamont in yesterday’s list

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ~ Antony Jay