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Today I’m grateful for knowing 

what native nation people have long professed

That each of us is put here in this time and place

to decide the future of humankind.

Did you think you were put here for something less?

Today I’m grateful for the poet Rumi’s understanding of singing birds

from the largest raven…to the smallest bobolink…

I want to sing like the birds sing…he said

Never worrying about who is hearing me

or worrying about what they think.

Today I’m grateful for having the ability even at my age

(an ability I hope will last untill the day I’m gone)

To dream big, 

stay positive 

and enjoy every journey I am on.

Today I’m grateful for understanding 

the power in the gift of kindness:

Knowing any time we reach for kindness

and are blessed to have achieved it…

How it cost nothing for us to give it…

but was priceless to those who received it.

Today I’m grateful for the novelist Henry James….

perhaps because when it comes to this particular view

our thinking is aligned….

He said:

Three things in human life are important.

The first is to be kind.

The second is to be kind.

And the third …is to be kind.

Today I’m grateful for understanding it is within our power

to see every child as a different and beautiful kind of flower

And if onto every flower…our love we equally bestow…

imagine the beautiful garden…all that love will grow.

Today I’m grateful for being forgetful…

for those times in life I find myself as happy as a clam…

Playing, singing, dancing

While forgetting how old I am 

Today I’m grateful I understand the beauty of holding hands…

for how often in life have we seen…

have we come to understand….

many a love story has begun 

and ended

with two people holding hands.

Today I’m grateful as I age a little every day

no matter how old I seem

that I have never in my life

lost my ability to dream.