First 50 of My 100 Gratitudes Today

I am grateful:

1. ¬¬¬¬¬¬I am not bad like last night
2. I woke up
3. It is a new day
4. I prayed, “God, please help me with this depression. I am a nice person. Why does this have to happen to me? Please help me.”
5. Simple prayer
6. Asked A. to say it too.
7. Feel that God IS helping
8. Through my sleep last night, blessed sleep
9. And my dreams
10. And M’s call this morning
11. And the link A sent me because I’ve been feeling so bad about myself. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFdvzH24LP8
12. Ram Daas
13. Maha
14. Thich Nhat Hanh
15. Kairava
16. A
17. L
18. M
19. MA
20. St
21. D
22. The Shabbat I can go to on Fri nights if I like (Even though I am not Jewish they will welcome me. So nice.)
23. Fb
24. This blog
25. You
26. JJ
27. EJ
28. Birdie
29. Jewel
30. Summer
31. Flight cage
32. Freedom – all the many hours they are in NO cage
33. Organic greens and baby greens for them
34. Good organic pellets for them
35. Good water for them
36. Good seeds for them
37. Still trying fruits for them
38. Turtles
39. Fish
40. Water for them to live in
41. Aquatic mammals
42. My student who has taken SUCH an interest in manatees! Does her own research, little reports, makes habitats out of paper… And she is a struggling reader. Nature is inspiring her and moving her along!
43. Birds. All birds
44. Birdsong
45. My doggie, now J’s doggie. God bless her.
46. That I am able to do my own shopping. My poor mother isn’t…
47. My piano
48. J. helping me so much in buying it. Finding it.
49. I am about to clean bird cage right now
50. And redo foods, waters, and TOYS! Yay
51. I did wash my hair (so can have it colored later)
1. Dinner out
2. Indian food
3. Out with O AND M.
4. We had a nice time
5. Okra (cooked in Indian way)
6. Onions
7. That O and M both love me
8. That I’m on the phone with L. now
9. Horses
10. Got my hair cut today
11. And colored
12. And WILL go again in 5 weeks
13. M saying to me that I must go today. I didn’t feel up to it. She said, “Look, you can pull yourself together . . . but THIS (meaning the grey) shows!”
14. A is nice to me
15. I am going with O to her kickboxing class once.
16. Tomorrow I will get to go grocery shopping. That is lucky.
17. And for my mother too.
18. My piano practice today
19. That I did NOT wind up having to take that lesson in the heat at O’s house
20. Water
21. Honest people
22. GMO-free vanilla coconut milk
23. Fishes
24. My thick hair
25. The new toys the birds have right now
26. Colleges
27. Universities
28. Fb
29. God
30. Thich Nhat Hanh
31. That I was with him (and thousands of others, lol) in Trafalgar Square
32. That I have been to museums
33. Music
34. Art
35. THIS! This kid is GREAT: http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/
36. Eyesight
37. Walking
38. Ability to eat
39. And drink
40. Cuttlebone for the birds
41. Swimming
42. All the times I’ve enjoyed it!
43. Sitcoms. I wish I didn’t, lol, but I love them
44. My spirituality
45. Kale for the birdies
46. I had a pedicure today! A special one!
47. And – a massage!
48. That I’m finishing these grats.
49. Lamps