God, That's Great!

On this Thanksgiving, I am grateful for the following:

I am grateful for my arms and legs, for my toasty little apartment, for a building filling with community. I am grateful that I can wake up tomorrow and spend a whole day learning. I am grateful for wet leaves and candlelight.

I am grateful for every time my heart has been broken and for every experience of total dispair. I am grateful that my mother remains healthy and more positive every day. I am grateful for free samples that come in the mail.

I am grateful for my voice, my rhythm, my ability to tell a good story. I am grateful for the financial abundance that seems to be supporting my wild, zany life choices. I am grateful for this laptop and all the worlds I get to touch through it.

I am grateful for Doritos and naps and orgasms and Saskatchewan. I am grateful for a season filled with the smell of wood burning fires. I am grateful to myself for giving myself persmission to fall in love again. I am grateful that I can dance with my partner in the middle of public streets. I am grateful that not only CAN I do this, but I DO do this.

I am grateful for an ignited passion and interest in Design, for possibility, for my total health, for a land without hurricanes.

I am grateful for funny movies, Jo's new found love of the OC, HGTV and the privacy of our thoughts.

I am grateful for Emma and Alex and that I had a brother so smart and neurotic and such a good teacher. I am grateful for every Brady and Jane and Jamie and Candace that has challenged me to not feel left when it was their time to go...

I am grateful. This I am. For all of it, even the stuff that stinks.

I now commit to remembering this more often and more fully.

Happy Thanksgiving.