My 100 Grats Today

I am grateful 1. My fingertips. I just saw a commercial with someone who doesn’t have fingertips. 2. I am grateful for her, for doing that public service commercial against smoking. God bless her. 3. And now it is Wednesday, Jan. 1. I had written yesterday about fingertips – wow. And then I went and sliced a piece of mine off with a razor by accident! Unbelievable! But it will heal. It may looked sort of deformed, but is still going to be usable! Grateful for that. 4. That I started this day with prayer. 5. And did the dishes. 6. That the house is in order. Phew. It took a LOT out of me. 7. That I am alive today. 8. The Five Mindfulness Trainings. Such a nice way to live. Doesn’t matter one’s religion or atheism, background, etc. http://www.plumvillage.org/mindfulness-trainings/3-the-five-mindfulness-trainings.html 9. That I am not alone last night or this morning. 10. That I’ll be okay when I am. 11. Exercise. 12. That al. will still be in my life, but so much less! Maybe see him every few weeks or every two months or something… 13. L. exercising here right now. Good for ME. 14. “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” Deepak Chopra 15. Hope. 16. A nice comfy, cozy home. 17. Neighbors. Good neighbors. 18. That I live in a country that allows me so much comfort, luxury items, nice lifestyle, living in a city with so many cultural offerings. 19. Grateful that Hurricane Sandy did not devastate me 20. Facebook 21. That I realized. Finally. LOOK AT WHAT YOU WERE DOING BEFORE LAST FALL (SINK INTO DEPRESSION). JUST DON’T DO THAT!!!! Ex. Sit 22. I saw my mother. 23. Brought her bean and veggie soup 24. And eggplant parm (vegan too as everything) 25. And cookies 26. So happy STARTED day with prayer today. 27. And that L. said loves me. I KNOW – I KNOW – and AM actively looking for other(s). And AM trying to fill SELF. Still feels nice to hear. 28. L. did Grats for 2012 today. 29. And his first was having met me 30. And 2nd was about something we did 31. And another was, ‘Grateful that you and I have such a wonderful rapport together. Both in the musical, and art. And all the other ways that we are rapported with each other. 32. That L. just called, said loves me. 33. And that I saw St this eve! 34. Had 2 ½ hours with her! 35. And we caught up with each other 36. And S got into a great college – I’m so glad 37. And them M. called 38. I’m grateful that my finger is healing (it is pm now) 39. And that I had a NICE visit with my mother 40. And that I have so much healthy homemade food in the freezer and fridge right now 41. And that I am in the NEAT den 42. That I am alive 43. “Dear Past: thank you for your lessons. Dear Future: I’m ready. Dear God: Thank you for another chance.” 44. “Dear God, Today I woke up. I am healthy. I am alive. Thank You.” 45. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson 46. “Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here, we might as well dance.” 47. “I need feminism because my university teacher “How to Avoid Getting Raped” instead of “Don’t Rape” 48. “Before you quit, Try…” 49. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.” Joseph Campbell 50. “Trying to be happy accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.” George Carlin 51. “Be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.” Carl Sagan 52. “Remember the high vibrational being you truly are. You are light and energy not this form that you temporarily occupy.” 53. “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.” 54. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” Buddha 55. And my favorite quote of all time: ”We are called upon to treat animals with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.” Matthew Scully – author of Dominion 56. “Sometimes you just have to pick yourself up and carry on…” 57. “You don’t 58. L. said he’ll read the Five Mindfulness Trainings with me this week. 59. “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right form wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.” Anonymous 60. “If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” Lao Tzu 61. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” John Lennon 62. Wed am. Can’t type. Bu can finish, maybe with quotes. Grateful for that. 63. The vote against the fiscal cliff. 64. "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." - Helen Keller 65. Maya Angelou “In 2012 nature and the mad nature of some human beings caused us to wonder how can we go on. From super storm Sandy to the Colorado movie house shooting and the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we have been pressed to find some answers to the question, why, me why us, why now? As we come into 2013, we bring with us the need to find answers and the hope to find what can we do to prevent the recurrence of these despairing occurrences. I think we must commit to a commitment to all human beings and a decision to accept our responsibility to nature's outpouring and human misbehavior. I wish that we could say with Horace Mann that each of us should be "ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind." I think we must surrender the despair of unexpected cruelty and extend the wonder of unexpected kindnesses to ourselves and to each other. 2013 can bring us the chance to be kind to each other and kind to ourselves. We deserve each other and each other's generosity.” 66. These affirmations from online: “I know that I deserve Love and accept it now” 67. “I give out Love and it is returned to me multiplied” 68. “I rejoice in the Love I encounter everyday” 69. “I choose to make positive healthy choices for myself” 70. “I choose to exercise regularly” 71. “When I believe in myself, so do others” 72. “I express my needs and feelings” 73. “I am my own unique self - special, creative and wonderful” 74. “All my relationships are loving and harmonious” 75. “I am at peace” 76. ‘I trust in the process of life” 77. “Life is a joy filled with delightful surprises” 78. “My life is a joy filled with love, fun and friendship all I need do is stop all criticism, forgive, relax and be open.” 79. ‘I choose love, joy and freedom, open my heart and allow wonderful things to flow into my life.” 80. “When I believe in myself, so do others” 81. “I express my needs and feelings” 82. “I am my own unique self - special, creative and wonderful” 83. “I have a wonderful partner and we are both happy and at peace” 84. “I release any desperation and allow love to find me” 85. “I attract only healthy relationships” 86. “Every Cell in my body vibrates with energy and health” 87. “Loving myself heals my life. I nourish my mind, body and soul” 88. “My body heals quickly and easily” 89. “I prosper wherever I turn and I know that I deserve prosperity of all kinds” 90. “The more grateful I am, the more reasons I find to be grateful” 91. “I pay my bills with love as I know abundance flows freely through me.” 92. Internet – from which I’m copying and pasting these gtatitudes: “Online banking” 93. “Making up” 94. “Intuition” 95. “.Believing in the power of thought” 96. “Teachers” 97. “Dance” 98. “Having professionals take care of it’ 99. “.Breath’ 100. “Good times’