Clarity

Today I am grateful for:

Knowing that the times when a gratitude list is the last thing I want to do are the times I can benefit from it the most.

Knowing that even when I am feeling loss, I have so much to be grateful for

Friends who reach out and are willing to really hear

Gentle, loving reminders of what I already know

I don't have to know the how, just the why and there is always a way

Plans to go to a baseball game with Leo and guest

Sarah giving our turtle a spacious new home

E-mails and photos from MJT

Plans for a WG picnic/reunion

A wonderful trip to the pacific northwest

Visiting MJT on her new island home and having such a good time. We ate lunch, went to the whale museum, walked around and looked in galleries, had drinks on the third floor patio looking out over the marina, watched ferries coming and going, stayed in a great inn, ate italian while listening to live jazz, played cards, drove out to a state park with walking trails and an old light house, saw dear, looked for whales, talked, shared, bonded..... all within 24 hours. Life is so damn good.

8 days with my Mom. We took a very long car ride from Seattle to Boise for our family reunion..

A tour of where I spent my early childhood, our first house, the elementary school I attended etc... Seeing that my memories are not very accurate. The house was much smaller than I remember and did not even have the porch I remember. According to my mom and aunt, it never did. hmmmm

Driving by my childhood friend Judy Mack's house and seeing that it is a big house but not the mansion I thought it was as a kid.

A tour of my Mom's childhood neighborhood in Boise.

Lots of time to get to know my mom's cousins and their families. Missing my Grandpa while at his house.

Going through a box of old pictures and finding out that my Grandpa had kept every card and letter he received from us over the years. I read letters I had written in elementary school and letters Taylor and my neices had written when they were barely able to write. My grandma gave me two clay angels Taylor made when she was 5 that have been hanging on the posts of their bed for 16 years. She also gave me an antique seltzer bottle my Dad gave to my Grandpa back in the early 70's.

Great novels to read on planes and while sitting in the back yard.

My knowing that I will live in the pacific northwest again. I can manifest it.

All of you and how reading your lists uplift me even when I don't write a list of my own.

Hugs and endless gratitude for your friendship

Kari