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Today I’m thankful for the birds 

Who…as to the tree limbs they cling…

know we must be part of the silence 

If we want to hear them sing.

Today I’m thankful for friends…

A friend is someone who

(I’m sure you’ve heard this before)

makes us laugh a little harder

cry a little less

and smile a little more.

Today I’m thankful for all those who read to children…

It’s one of the best things, for them, we can do….

I’m thankful for the parents…

for the teachers who read…

and for the grandparents, like me, too.

Today I’m thankful for compassion:

The ability to see everyone as sisters and brothers….

to look beyond whatever pain we may be feeling at any moment…

and see the pain of others

Today I’m thankful for sports 

for showing us how to have fun and play..

and teaching us always try and do a little better

than we did yesterday

Today I’m thankful for magic…for children…

and for the wonderfully innocent view of the world they bring…

Because…

when we are fortunate enough to see the world through the eyes of a child

we’re be able to see magic…in everything

 Today once again I’m thankful for flowers 

and the diversity they show….

because if every flower was a red rose…

think of all the beauty we’d never know

Today I’m thankful for swings

for those feelings of freedom and flying that it brings…

I think Duke Ellington understood 

the wonders that they bring…

when he sang…

Life don’t mean a thing…

if it ain’t got that swing 

Today I’m thankful for the ability to be thankful

and the way thankfulness breeds thankfulness more and more…

because the more you practice being thankful….

you find 

the more you have to be thankful for.