Last night as my daugher said her prayers she spent 5 minutes naming each and every item of her day she was grateful for. This included: A safe home, healthy food, and soft sheets. She also named every other thing you could possibly think of. But her thoughts have resonated with me since last night. I need to be thankful. More grateful. I complain about and am afraid of far too many things. There will come a day when I am more free than I am now to do the things I'd like. But in the meantime, I need to be more mindful. Today while I ran, someone's black lab joined my animal entourage. My dogs were freaked out by the visitor and it was unnerving at first to have a strange black dog flank me. Having been bitten by three dogs in my life, I was a little worried. But he just followed us the whole way and kept going when we got off the trail. He reminded me a bit of my dear old black lab buried in the back yard. In keeping with the toughts that have been going through my mind: I am grateful to be reminded of my old black lab friend and I am grateful the world is bright green again. | 