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Today I’m grateful for the magical feeling holding hands can bring.

How that simple act can cause your face to smile

your skin to tingle 

and your heart to sing….

And what’s even more amazing…even better yet…

is how that feeling never goes away…

no matter how old you get.

Today I’m grateful I have a voice

and that I know how to use it too…

That I am well aware what a voice filled with 

kindness

compassion 

caring 

and love can do.

Today I’m grateful for the knowledge…the ability to understand 

that I don’t need money or anyone’s permission

to build a castle in the sand.

Today I’m grateful for imagination…and for the wisdom of Albert Einstein…

Whose knowledge and imagination were truly grand…

Who said knowledge is limited to only what we know and understand….

Who reminded us how  imagination can take us to unknown worlds and unknown lands

embracing entire universes and all there ever will be…

to know and understand.

Today I’m grateful for our house…

and how…while watching our children grow 

and through its yard and hallways roam…

somewhere along the way

this house became our home.

Today I’m grateful for shoulders…

I have been blessed to have stood on my ancestors shoulders…

Blessed the way our lives have intertwined….

And I hope someday my children and grandchildren will feel blessed

to have stood on top of mine.

Today I’m grateful for a better understanding of what a hero is:

for 72 years life has been my teacher

And she has taught me a hero 

is anyone determined to make this world a better place

for every living creature.

Today I’m grateful for music and for Plato

to his words I often cling :

Music, he said, gives soul to the universe

Wings to the mind

Flight to the imagination

And life to everything…

Today I’m grateful for understanding the importance of time

For it is my belief…my contention….

That whenever our children need it…

we should find the time

to give them our undivided attention.