My 100 Gratitudes Today

I am grateful:

1. Flat Stanley
2. Waking up from the bad dreams
3. Hangers
4. Spanish class so one day every cycle I get 2 preps
5. That it is today so I can get ready for tomorrow’s conferences
6. My growth and recovery so far
7. Beautiful bowls and cups with design on the inside
8. When the kids laugh so hard at teeny little innocent things
9. The banana orange knock knock joke and me reacting like I didn’t know it yet when Ran told it to me yesterday
10. The way I’m getting so many messages from the For Today book this time, unlike 10 years ago.
11. Like today’s: “With defects unattended, the insanity of compulsive overeating returns and that is death, spiritually and emotionally if not physically.” “I know that change is possible…” “I have steps to follow and they lead to freedom.”
12. All the oa tools
13. Still eating from that pot of pasta fagioli
14. Finding my sunglasses.
15. That I *have * such expensive sunglasses
16. Starting to understand how stupid and useless and destructive the jealousies and thoughts of what I thought I needed used to be, and would be now/ just are
17. H from vb
18. Vegan restaurants
19. Pencils and little hand-held sharpeners
20. The unions getting involved in the bad things going on against teachers and education, working to protect ourselves and each other
21. T. pool and all the years I had it
22. Sunrise
23. Woods, forests, rainforests, mother earth
24. That I have a microwave
25. Specialty teas
26. My core – that it moves and is able
27. My circulation
28. That I can move in the mornings
29. That my hair grows
30. That I looked nice yesterday. And lots of people commented
31. Magazines
32. VT
33. Prevention
34. WW
35. O Mag
36. That Oprah did that big interview with Thich Nhat Hahn
37. Phoebe’s toys
38. Hyak’s toys
39. That Phoebe uses Hyak’s toys
40. Assemblies
41. Dancing
42. Elephants
43. Giraffes
44. Tigers
45. White tigers
46. Lions
47. Female lions, yes separately
48. Peacocks and peahens
49. Zebras
50. Wild horses
51. Cougars
52. Panthers
53. Jaguars
54. Wolves
55. Coyotes
56. Racoons
57. Bears
58. Polar bears
59. Pandas
60. Seahorses
61. Otters
62. Sea lions
63. Squirrels
64. Rabbits
65. Foxes
66. Camels
67. Dogs
68. Cats
69. Birds – all birds
70. Storks
71. Flamingos
72. Ostriches
73. Cows, lovely sweet beautiful cows
74. Goats
75. Sheep
76. The Catskill game farm, and that baby goat who stayed on my lap for so long that day
77. My 3 goldfish when I was little – I can’t remember their names right now but I will
78. Mertz and Tertz
79. Shala
80. Lasha
81. Lyrech
82. Lad
83. Sparky
84. Mona
85. Phoebe
86. Blueberry
87. Sparkle
88. Minion
89. Forgiveness
90. Step four that I am working
91. Possible meeting tonight
92. My metronome
93. My muscles
94. My veins
95. Medicines that have saved me
96. John
97. My daddy
98. My mommy
99. Noni
100. Papa Noni