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I am grateful in my life 

How my children taught me how to be a good parent…

How their children taught me how to be a grand parent…

and now I can’t wait

to see how little Violet will teach me how to be great.

I am grateful for understanding respect…

In this life I am completing…

It’s a message Jane Goodall taught

and it often bears repeating…

It is especially important in this time

as a topic for all our leaders to discuss:

When we show our respect for other living things

they respond with respect for us.

I am grateful for realizing

our purpose in the Universe…

is to love, to be kind…and to soothe…

and understanding when we live within that purpose

our path ahead is smooth.

I am grateful for my understanding of freedom…

I’m not sure when or how long ago 

this seed in me was planted

that we are meant to take advantage…

to enjoy our freedom

never taking it for granted.

I am grateful for the simple wisdom

in this African proverb 

that declares:

Happiness in not perfected…

until that happiness is shared

I am grateful 

(heeding the words of Martin Luther King)

when it comes to this life

knowing, exactly, what to choose

exactly what I can bring

To try no matter what happens…

no matter when or how…or where…

to choose love

because hate 

is much too hard a burden to bear.

I am grateful having learned

from many of the great minds 

A lesson I’ll never forget…

How failure is just a success

I haven’t realized yet.

I am grateful for having learned this simple lesson

that Jane Goodall embodied so beautifully…

When I show respect and love for other living things

they will return that respect and love to me

I am grateful for radical hope…

Like the kind if have as our nation

faces a cultural devastation…

It involves believing in a future

that is loving and kind and good

even if at this time…it’s a future

that can’t be fully understood