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I am grateful every now and then…for a little while

when I’m in close enough proximity…so see birds when they smile…

I’ve seen them smile…

as the sit in our bird feeder…

when they just happen by

when they’re perched upon a tree branch singing

and in that brief but wonderful moment just before they fly

Today I’m grateful for understanding my importance in the continuum of life…

my place in the spectrum of happiness and peace…

and knowing no matter how old I grow

my importance will never diminish or cease.

Because every generation inherits a world it did not create…

and to that world must add more love, acceptance and laugher

as that generation become the guardians…the trustees

of the generation…coming after.

I’m not only grateful today

but I’ve been forever pleased

That my dreams have been the source 

of so many of my memories

Today I’m grateful that to be on the same page as Elliot Page

and wish more people could see the world through his/their eyes…

“Everyone deserves to feel love” he/they says

“Equally

without shame

and without compromise”

Today I’m grateful for butterflies and luna moths…

how they easily deceive the naked eye….

How when we see them for a moment we believe…

there are flowers that can fly.

Today I’m grateful for understanding the power of silence…

and how in my life it plays an important role…

For even though these words I write often delight my heart and mind…

It’s silence that delights my soul.

Today I’m grateful for the journey I am making

on this spinning orb through hurtling through space…

because as the native nations understood:

Between who I once was

and who I am becoming

is where the dance of life takes place

Today I’m grateful for understanding…

(and I can talk or write about this at length)

that the gentleness of our spirit

will always be…our greatest strength.

Every day when I wake up

I’m grateful for the happiness waking up evokes…

I’m not only grateful that I woke to a new day

but in this political climate…

I am also grateful to be woke.