I am grateful for indoor plumbing – for faucets that open to fresh, drinkable water right in my house; for hot water waiting for when I need it; for flush toilets, and bathtubs, and showers…
I am grateful for my kitchen – for sharp knives and steel pots; for blenders and stoves and refrigerators; for cupboards full of dishes and spices and cans of food. I am grateful for all the meals I've had. I'm grateful for people who feed me. I'm grateful for people who eat what I've cooked.
I'm grateful that when I've forgotten an ingredient I can get in my car, drive to the store, buy the ingredient and come back home, all in less than an hour even though I live a far stretch out of town.
I'm grateful for my child, and the light, humor, love, growth and new video games he brings into my life. I'm grateful for his father, who helped bring him into my life and to his other mother for helping to give him this amazing life I get to witness.
I am grateful for my friends, and family, and clients, who never cease to teach me something I didn't know, and who regularly give me the chance to show up with what I do know.
I am grateful for my Subaru. I'm grateful for all-wheel drive, for the heater, for the air-conditioner, for the engine and the tires and the radio that takes me way further than the car itself ever could.
I'm grateful for roads, and stoplights, and snowplows and street sweepers. I'm grateful for policemen and women, and for every other person on the road who makes it possible for thousands of cars to drive at high speeds right next to each other with hardly any accidents.
I'm grateful for electricity, for all the many ways of turning it into light, and heat, and movement and information and entertainment.
I am grateful for engineers, and inventors, and artists, and teachers, and soldiers, and carpenters, and health care professionals and athletes. I'm grateful for every person who shows up ready to express her or his personal vision, even if it is just for the architecture of the sandwich for their lunch. I'm grateful for my cats and my chickens, for the sensation of reaching under a warm hen to get the eggs. I'm grateful to imagine what it is like for the chicks that stand up to keep their bodies tucked in her feathers when she moves.
I'm grateful for pets, and domesticated animals and wild creatures. I am grateful for forests and loggers and tree huggers. I'm grateful for oceans and fish and deep sea photographers and transoceanic flights.
I am grateful for this state of gratitude, which is so much more than being happy some particular thing or person has come into my life. It ceases to be specific about anything at all. I feel awe-struck gratitude for every single thing I see or that comes into my mind. I am grateful for apparent duality, so I can see all this amazing, infinitely varied, creative expression that surrounds me in my human experience. And I am grateful to be part of this Divine dance.
And I am oh, so grateful for every one of you dancing it with me.
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