Happy 60th Birthday to My Beloved Mother
Tomorrow would have been my Mother’s 60th birthday….Next Tuesday will be 6 years that she is gone. Whoever said it gets easier lied. Some have said it doesn’t get easier, you just cry less. I would challenge that as well, you just cry less in public, you learn to do it in private. I don’t want to take this time to whine though, I want to take this time to pay tribute to my Mother.
Only those who were blessed to have met her could possibly have any idea what a unique and amazing woman she was. I have heard from countless people how she touched their lives, and in reality few of those people even really knew her inside and out. Most saw an extremely beautiful woman whose make up was always perfect, whose lipstick was flawless, and whose smile lit up a room. A woman who in her own hidden pains, spent so much time taking away other peoples’ pain. Many people saw a woman who loved her children more than herself, and who gushed when she spoke about or looked at her husband….most never knew about the extremely turbulant times she endured during the first half of her life. Some would see her and were intimidated by her perfect posture, with her chin always raised to the sky, wearing stunning jewelry…few knowing that she survived things in life that people should never have to endure, that she rose up past adversity and worked hard for what she had. People only had the opportunity to see the woman that she allowed them to see… only part of herself.
I have a million wonderful memories of her, the one that comes to mind the most is her doing the Mashed Potato in the kitchen. I don’t know if that’s my favorite, but I know that I can still play the song and vividly see her doing the dance if I close my eyes.
People who had never had the opportunity to meet her could never understand what they missed. When I talk to people about her, I often see in their eyes a blank stare, or a look that they think I glorify her, or that standard, insincere “she sounds like she was a great woman.” They could never possibly know, because my words could do her no justice.
My mother was not a perfect woman, she had her faults like every one else, even worse than some, but the truth is that words could never describe her. Words could never describe the feeling you would get when she would walk into the room, or the way it felt to have one of her hugs, or experience her look into your eyes and know what is wrong, and often how to fix it. She was an example to her children, and anyone who knew her that your past and your circumstances didn’t have to hold you down. She was a woman of faith, a woman so full of love with so many gifts to share.
She was my best friend and my angel while she was here on earth with me. I don’t miss her less as time goes by, I have just learned to hide it better. The truth is, people don’t want to hear about how much you miss your mother, because they don’t have a clue what I’m missing. And that’s okay, people don’t know what they don’t know, and I would never wish on anyone the pain of losing a parent, or losing anyone.
For tomorrow, while I will mourn the fact that she is not here to have a HUGE 60th birthday celebration, I WILL celebrate her. I will celebrate her life, I will celebrate that fact that she gave me 2 amazing sisters and a great Dad. I will celebrate all of the lessons that she had taught me, and continues to teach me every day. I will shed some tears, and I will have some laughs over some great memories. I will wake up tomorrow and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY, I LOVE YOU!! And maybe, just maybe I’ll do some Mashed Potato. . .
An Amazing Person Could Walk Right In….and Out of Your Life
Well, it’s been way too long since I have posted, so I’m back!
A very, very good friend of mine said something to me last night that resonated with me, and I though I would take some time to write about it.
In talking about relationships, he said to me. “Let go of your fears and have an open mind and heart, and see what walks into your life. It could be something amazing.” I have been stewing on this statement for almost 24 hours now and wasn’t really sure where to go with it.
I believe that when we are young, and meet our “first love” none of this is an issue. It is after we have been hurt by our first relationship that we have to be reminded to let go of our fears and open our hearts. This continues through our lives after we have been in more relationships and hurt more. Every time we end a relationship, we often tend to build higher and higher walls, and if you are really looking for a serious relationship, it becomes harder and harder to open up to that possibility.
Let’s break it down, in my way. I’m going to start with opening the heart and mind. Opening your heart is probably the most obvious thing that needs to be done right? That’s clear. Opening your mind, I’m actually glad he brought that one up, because we know we need to open our hearts in order to let people in, but to me opening your mind is just as important. I think we tend to have a perception of the type of person we will end up in a relationship with. Sometimes though, someone amazing walks into our lives that doesn’t necessarily fit that image. That’s when we need to open our minds…. otherwise, we risk letting that amazing person walk right back out.
Then comes the fear, which really is something that’s probably there from the beginning, and while we often get over that initial fear, it often comes back. It comes back at the moment we realize that we have opened our heart our and minds, and that amazing person is standing there in front of us, and fear takes over and we become frozen, and unable to make a move. And again, we risk that amazing person that walked into our lives at the most unexpected, and yet the most perfect time, walk right back out. What is that fear about? The fear of rejection? The fear of being hurt by them? The fear that we are undeserving of them? The fear that a friendship will be “ruined”?
I think the bigger question is this…what is the risk? What is the risk of NOT letting go of your fears, and NOT opening your heart and mind, and what do you risk by letting that amazing person who walked into your life unexpectedly, walk back out? Yes there is the chance that by telling them how you feel, you could be rejected, there is the chance that it could work for a while and in the end you get hurt. However, you may also find, if you just let go, that you have found the person that you are meant to be with. . . and it could last forever. Yes, I actually believe that.
Yeah, that’s what I got for tonight. I will call my friend out, and say that I don’t believe he follows his own advice. I will also say that I opened my heart and mind last year, and a very unexpected amazing person did walk into my life. And I did take the risk kind of told him how I felt, and no he didn’t feel the same way. HOWEVER, it didn’t kill me right?
Just because it doesn’t work out the way you want it to, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work out the way its meant to.
Another Chapter Ending
Well, another year and another of chapter of my life is coming to an end.
After much thought and contemplation I chose to give my notice on Tuesday, and December 30th will be the last day of my job. I have to use the word “job” very lightly, because for the past 2 1/2 years it has been so much more than a job for me.
Almost three years ago, I met two very amazing young men who had a vision. They, and their vision changed my life. I hate to use the word “job” to describe this experience that I have had, because it has been just that, an experience. Sure, it paid the bills, but in reality it did so much more than that for me. For the first time in a very long time I felt like I was doing something important, helping two men start their business, and helping people out of some very hard situations in having to short sell their home. Then they became my family, they became my brothers. Then we grew, and my family grew. I have had the privilege to share a large percentage of my life for the past 2 1/2 years with the most amazing people. Kevin and Fred have had an indescribable impact on my life and the only thing I can say is that I love them more than I thought I could. But its not just Kevin and Fred, but the people who joined us throughout the years.
Brian was my baby brother, and watching him grow in his music career has made me beyond proud. Jamie, well, Jamie is my mini me, and I love her more and more every day. Stephanie had the opportunity to start her career in the field she loves and she surprises me daily. Andrew, though he has moved on to other things, is wise beyond his years and I miss our philosophical discussions. Every one on our sales team stepped out of their comfort zone and excelled, and I’m so proud. Keith and Angie, who became my brother and sister in-law. David was, is and always will be my sunshine. And though I have said it before, I will forever wish God made more people like him.
Then there are the other people in the Keller Williams Arizona Realty office, who although not on my team have had an amazing impact on my life. Steph, who has often been my sounding board. Kathie B. who I share a great spiritual bond with. Kathy C, who lights up my day as soon as I see her absolutely amazing smile. Bob S. who takes my breath away every time I see his beautiful blue eyes. Mac, who I have had some amazing conversations with, and who is one of the few people I am on the same level with spiritually and politically. Jessica, who is freakin amazing, and a blast to be with, and who I have so much in common with. Betty, who shares my love of baking. Bret, who chose to push through and make it in Real Estate. Eliot, who allows me to call him out on all his silliness and even appreciates it. Ted, who brings me back to the east coast every time he opens his mouth. Derrik, who gets me, and is one of the only people in the world who not only sees through me, but calls me out on my crap when few other people aren’t afraid to do that. Cameron, who has unknowingly taught me to let down my guard, who has quickly become one of my closest friends and who never fails to make me laugh. I could never every express to each and every one of you how much I absolutely LOVE and appreciate you. And everyone else in that office, who I have built amazing bonds with, which I will never let go of.
I am truly blessed. Blessed by the things that I have learned, by the people who have come into my life, and by the experiences I have had.
While I thought I would be there forever, and while it was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my adult life, I do know that it is just the end of another chapter, and that a new one is about to begin.
This is a bitter-sweet time, filled with sadness, anxiety, stress, excitement, joy and anticipation of what is next.
This book I call my life has been everything from scary to fun, happy to sad, tragic to comedic, and aside from the loss of my mother, I wouldn’t take any of it back. I am who I am because of, the experiences and the “mistakes”, the people who have come and gone, and each and every one of the chapters. As I turn the page on this on this one, I can only pray that I have had just a little impact on the lives of all of the people who have so deeply touched and impacted me.
Want to Understand me Better?
I have been doing an abnormally (for me) large amount of writing lately, and although I am not yet quite sure where that is going, it feels great. However, I am not ready to share that stuff yet. So I thought it would be fun to share the very in depth astrology report I just received. I really is quite amazing.
Enjoy the depths of me. lol
Sun in Virgo (25° Vir 42′ 22″) Sun in the Ninth House
Your ruling planet is Mercury and also the asteroids. Virgo people tend to be very conscious of details. You may also appear nervous or obsess over health issues. You are likely to be neat and orderly, at least in some area of your life, although you may exhibit the opposite tendency in cases where you have not yet found your guiding principle of organization. You love work, service to others and the gathering of the fruits of the material world, as symbolized by the harvest. You are also likely to be a good conversationalist, with wide-ranging knowledge and interesting ideas. You can be analytical and perhaps overly fond of detail, with perfectionist tendencies, and you may miss out on the big picture by concentrating on the micro. It also benefits you to learn the find line between discrimination and criticism. Your mission in life is the purification your activity in pursuit of your goals, manifesting your inherent love of excellence in all strivings
The Sun in the Ninth House represents a concentration of the vital force of abstracting and understanding universal truth. You are strongly invested in creating for yourself a philosophy as your personal vision of life as an interconnected adventure or journey. You willingly study the various meanings ascribed to life that are visionary in nature, involving patterns that interplay or holistic forms. You use your higher awareness to look for pieces of life’s mysterious puzzle and then organize your perceptions to connect them within a broader picture of reality. In addition to your voyage through your own inner landscapes you enjoy adventuring by traveling to foreign lands and learning languages. You are also drawn to be an observer of other’s ideas and experiences. You love to study and reflect back into society anything that people have gathered and learned. Your nature is to eliminate the extraneous from hidden truths and reveal their essence to those around you. You are at your best when you have a range of areas of interest to experience and absorb into your mind and body, in order that you stretch out your visionary vistas and make them more concretely available to others as you lucidly explore the outer reaches of your perceptions.
Chart Patterns
Bowl, leading planet Jupiter
Jupiter in the Seventh House (or sign) gives you a refined and idealistic nature. You are easily influenced by others, and may have great difficulty in making a decision, especially when you start to take into consideration all of the possibilities that suggest themselves to you. You work well with other people, and are known for your fairness. You will always champion both sides of a dispute and make sure that the underdog has his say. You are thoughtful and diplomatic and make a good lawyer. You are also likely to be very social and attractive to others. Other people matter to you in an extraordinary way, which can be both a blessing and a curse. You are a great lover of art and beauty wherever you find it, but you may tend to scatter your focus, and could benefit from more firmly concentrating your energies to serve your own inner motivation.
Jupiter in Cancer (or the fourth house) gives you a loving, kind and caring personality, very friendly and sociable, generous and high-minded. You have an instinct for nurturing others, and find enjoyment as well as opportunity in this type of tribal sharing. You have an inherent spirituality, which is thus displayed not in philosophy, but in acts of love and generous giving of yourself. You work well with the public, and are likely to be popular with your entire circle, and tend to attract material rewards without seeming to try for them. You have an inclination toward the poetical and mystical or the marvelous side of life.
Yod, focal planet Moon
You have a Yod planetary aspect pattern in your chart, also known as the ‘finger of God’. You may have physical or psychological problems associated with the expression of the energies of the focal planet or planets, creating a subtle form of tension in your life. The key is adjustment. Your lesson is to transform the expression of these energies along more positive lines.
The moon in Sagittarius gives an uninhibited, freedom-loving personality which may incline to the restless. You are very idealistic, and see the best side of everyone. You are happy and fun to be around. You are also apt to be impatient. You tend to react to situations with action rather than with reflection. You can also be unrealistic in your approach to situations. You should learn to temper your idealism with reality in setting out to achieve your high aspirations.
The Moon in the Twelfth House represents an emotional sensitivity in subconscious realms. You enjoy mystery. You are in tune with the subconscious realms that others cannot perceive. You may become overly sensitive to other people’s feelings and instinctual emotions. At times you may feel the need to keep secrets and to not share your private feelings and emotions. You may be quite sensitive at various times or feel a need to escape from your intense inner awareness for brief periods. You can also live in an inner world of vivid imagination. You can be quite creative. You may be restless, shy, or moody. You may prefer to work alone in secluded and isolated ways. You can be self-sacrificing if you become overly emotionally involved with those around you. You can be of service to those who are not as in tune and aware of themselves. You need to take time alone and isolate yourself to recharge your emotional energy.
Important Features
Neptune in Sagittarius (13° Sag 32′) Neptune in the Twelfth House Angular planet – conjunct Ascendant
Neptune in the Twelfth House (or sign) gives a gentle compassionate and loving personality. You are extremely sensitive, and may not feel comfortably at home in the physical. You are able to sense otherworldly influences, which may be more present to you than the mundane world of ordinary reality, and you may receive psychic information through these channels. Idealistic and selfsacrificing, you experience a spiritual longing for connection with numinous realms beyond this earthly plane of existence, and you may therefore withdraw periodically from the here and now into a world of imagination and fantasy. You are apt to have a passion for movies or fiction. The influence of the past, as well as the influence of your own unconscious process, is especially strong in you. You find happiness when you connect with your higher self. You function at your best when in service to the world, helping to move it closer to interconnectedness, in keeping with your fundamental vision of spiritual union among all mankind.
Neptune in Sagittarius (or the ninth house) gives an impressionable, idealistic and very intuitive personality. You are inclined to the mystical, and are high-minded, seeing life in terms of visionary and poetic feelings rather than in practical terms. You are capable of great belief in the unknown and unproven. You are inclined to scholarly pursuits, but may feel a lack of motivation or vagueness with respect to educational goals. You also have a strong desire to explore and travel, to try novel ideas and experiment with new ways of doing things. You may be attracted to spiritual studies, or psychedelics, as a way to achieve a transcendent state of mystical union with all creation. Your challenge lies in relying on your considerable inner vision to unfold your own unique pathway, to make concrete and real your flights of consciousness to other realms, and bring this vision back with you into society at large.
Saturn in Leo (24° Leo 55′) Saturn in the Eighth House
Saturn in the Eighth House (or sign) gives a strong personality with intense emotions. There can be a deepening and concentration, or a blockage, of your feeling nature so that many and complex emotions are generated. You are likely to have fears surrounding the issue of emotional closeness and sexuality, and being able to give of yourself, so that you may suffer greatly through thwarted desire. You fear the blending of your life with another, yet paradoxically that sense of merged realities is quite important to you, even longed for. Your reactions to events may seem to be almost automatically determined at a deep subconscious level, so that you are actually unfamiliar with your true motivation. You may become a student of the occult, as a means to explore the dark realms with your psyche.
The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:
You are likely to be strong-willed and autocratic, and can also appear selfish, or cautious and reserved. Your heart-center may need developing. There may be a sense of a lack of love in your life, and a subconscious desire for acceptance that manifests as rigidity, doubt and insecurity
Angular Planets
Pluto in Libra (13° Lib 21′) Pluto in the Tenth House Angular planet – conjunct Midheaven
Pluto in the Tenth House (or sign) gives you a forceful personality with a focus on issues of authority, power and control. You may go through many changes in the course of pursuing your work in the world. You are a real powerhouse of energy, and enjoy being in charge, perhaps as a compensation for having felt overly controlled in your early encounters with authority figures.
The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:
Pluto in Libra (or the seventh house) gives you a focus on forming close emotional attachments. You may feel a compulsion to be liked by others. Conversely, you can also become involved in power struggles with partners. You have a depth of passion within you that isn’t obvious or recognized, and you may seek to project this power drive onto a relationship partner, rather than directly own up to it. You may therefore find yourself in relationship with dark or manipulative personality types, who may exhibit openly the tendencies you have yourself at a more hidden level. You are likely to go through many changes in your relationship dynamic, as you come to understand more fully your inner process. You may exhibit strong attractions toward close involvement with another person, and simultaneously have fears regarding such attachments.
Sun, Moon, Rising Sign Features
Sagittarius Rising
The Rising Sign is the mask shown to others, also the physical appearance.
Sagittarius Rising people are direct and forthright, good-natured and optimistic. Your ruling planet is Jupiter. One always knows where one stands with you. You come across as honest and forthright. You have a strong moral nature, yet you are also fun-loving and enjoy a good laugh, even at your own expense. Sagittarius is associated with idealism, religion and philosophy and the quest for freedom. You are friendly and well-liked by others, who are attracted to your open and honest nature. You love adventure, sports and travel, gambling and risk-taking. You are generous and easy-going, also very curious about the world around you. You are a lover of nature, and have an enthusiasm which can be contagious. At the highest level, you are concerned with understanding, perception, and mental activity in the service of high ideals, for the benefit of mankind.
Sun in square (within 5.9 degrees) with Ascendant
This aspect between the Sun and Ascendant gives a strong-willed and generous personality. You also have great energy, courage and honesty and are very proud.
Chiron in sesquiquadrate (within 0.3 degrees) with Ascendant
With this aspect between Chiron and the Ascendant in your chart you are likely to experience painful realizations throughout your own life and have the ability to heal others as well. The empathy and the understanding that are gained through life’s trials provide the ability to serve as a helper and a healer for others. You have probably experienced pain and frustration related to your self-concept, or there could have been trauma in your early years concerning parental protection which may have been withdrawn too suddenly or misapplied, or perhaps similar issues with your peers. These early experiences may have made it hard to accept the love of others in your adult life. Since you have a great deal compassion and empathy for others you are likely to be someone with career possibilities in the helping professions. You may strongly desire to help other people, and yet be unable to give them the full benefit of your higher self. When you have made a solid transition from existing in a divided state to a more balanced and integrated whole, you can be of much more actual service to other people, since you are more available to yourself.
Venus in weak trine (within 5.5 degrees) with Ascendant
This aspect gives a warm-hearted and affectionate personality. You are likely to be cheerful, charming and popular socially. You may also be very beautiful, particularly at the soul-level.
Neptune in weak conjunction (within 6.3 degrees) with Ascendant
This conjunction gives a highly sensitive, visionary and creative individual. You are somewhat unworldly. You possess an ethereal quality, displaying a marked remoteness from ordinary reality. You are softhearted, and you may be perhaps even too willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of others. You may have problems in feeling free to assert yourself, or have issues with lack of self-confidence, self-deceptive illusions, or drugs. You may also be dissatisfied with work activities, or evade decisions, or practice other forms of escapism.
Moon in strong square with Mercury Ruler of sun sign – sun’s ruler
This aspect gives a brilliant mind with a sharp tongue and a witty personality. You are an independent thinker. You can be sensitive at times, and you may find yourself overly concerned with health issues.
Moon in inconjunct with Mars
You may suffer from a sort of nervous tension, in that you are unsatisfied when you are not in action. You are an analytical and independent thinker with an original, active and even brilliant mind.
Moon in inconjunct with Jupiter Leading planet of planetary pattern
This aspect gives an optimistic and kindly personality. You are tolerant of others, and enjoy good company as well as good food. You are usually able to spend money as fast as you get it, so you don’t usually pile up riches.
Jupiter in strong sextile with Chiron
With this placement you have a strong connection with spirituality and a great tendency to go your own way rather than subserve yourself to the spiritual ideals of human consciousness. You also may have been wounded in your spirituality in some way; perhaps in your early life you were forced into relationship with some sort of spiritual community to which you did not feel a connection. These two planetary energies, Jupiter and Chiron, both have a strong spiritual component, but operate in different ways. With Jupiter’s optimism in support of Chiron’s tendency for pain and suffering as a way toward the light, you are always able to rise above distressing circumstances, buoyed up by a strong streak of faith in the ultimate beneficence of Spirit. You have an abiding interest in matters of the religion and philosophy, although this is likely to represent your own style of spiritual involvement rather than any standard form of spiritual institutions.
Mercury in sextile with Jupiter
This conjunction gives a quiet and unassuming and clever personality, which is also somewhat scattered. You are good-natured, and are likely to be above average in intelligence. You make a good teacher. You likely prefer a simple mode of life and possess a good balance between spiritual and physical realms.
Jupiter in septile with Saturn
This aspect gives a serious and conscientious personality. You are strong morally, and likely to be socially active. You are quietly ambitious, with a good sense about you that impresses other people. You may make an excellent manager, and have talent for working with the public. You desire to be a force for good in society. If you live up to this ideal, you will be a natural leader, being optimistic, yet practical, and possessing excellent judgment. For the early part of your life you may tend to hide your light under a basket; your powers are likely to grow as you mature.
Mars in strong trine with Uranus
This aspect gives an individual with an original and eccentric mind, whose intuition is strong. You are a strong-willed nonconformist, with your own code of ethics. You may feel a sense of isolation, and can appear emotionally insensitive at times, seemingly more excited by ideas than by other people. Your basis for action derives from a sense of high ideals, rather than from mere egotism.
Mars in inconjunct with Neptune
This aspect gives an attractive personality with a psychic sensitivity and an inclination to mysticism and the arts. You possess a good understanding of and balance between the practical and the ideal. You can also be vague regarding motives or discontented with life in the material plane. You could have issues with self-deception, or with deception practiced upon you by other people
Moon in weak square with Saturn
You may appear to be rigid, rather letting your emotions flow freely. This aspect gives a deepening and concentrating, or a blockage in the expression of your feelings. You may be extremely sensitive.
Moon in weak sextile with Midheaven
This aspect gives an emotionally sensitive personality who is nurturing and caring. You may tend to be dependent on others for your own feelings of self-worth, so that it may be important to you that others look up to you.
Jupiter in weak trine with Uranus
This combination gives a socially conscious, optimistic and intuitive individual who works well with groups. You have a strong sense of optimism and possess high ideals. You have an incredibly strong intuition, and you do well when you follow your original impulse.
Uranus in weak opposition with Chiron
With this aspect, you are prone to sudden insights and departures. You have a unusual combination of personality traits in which you are both very unconventional yet also somewhat unsure of yourself in your very departure from the rest of society, so that you may surprisingly show flashes of a conservative side. You have a brilliant mind, and are undoubtedly a witty conversationalist, although with a slightly erratic tendency to switch topics arbitrarily.
What is it about these holidays?
As I sat down to right this I realized I had absolutely no idea what I was going to write about. Then, I decided that since Thanksgiving is coming up, I should write about gratitude.
Sometimes I get frustrated that often it takes Thanksgiving for many people to express their gratitude, and I think that’s a shame. It’s similar to Veterans’ Day, while I think it’s great that Veteran’s Day is a holiday, why does it take that one day for people to thank the people who have served our country? Shouldn’t we be thanking them every day? They fight every day….and every night.
Anyway, I digress… back to Thanksgiving. It started a few days ago….people posting on their Facebook statuses all the things they are grateful for, and again, I am not criticizing people for showing or expressing their gratitude. However, I do think it’s kind of a shame that it takes a holiday for people to express gratitude.
According to Wikipedia Thanksgiving is:
“Thanksgiving Day, known informally as “Turkey Day,” is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving was a holiday to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest.”
So, to clarify, I am not discounting Thanksgiving nor the idea behind it. However, is showing appreciation to God, Family and Friends one day a year really sufficient? Do we really need a holiday to drop to your knees and thank God (or whatever/whoever you believe in) for our MANY blessings. Because really, isn’t just waking up in the morning a blessing? Is thanking our family for supporting us throughout our life, on one day really enough? Is thanking our friends once a year for being our designated driver, or our shoulder to cry on the best that we can do? Have we become so wrapped up in our own life, and things that we have forgotten that we have someone to be grateful to for providing us with our life and the things that we have? Why is it that it takes the holiday season to say “Thank You” to someone for opening the door for you? Do we really need to be in the holiday spirit to hold the door open? Come on… And how about looking at ourself in the mirror and saying thank you? As a society, we don’t just take other people or possessions for granted, we take ourselves for granted to. We take our bodies, which most of us abuse on a daily basis, for granted more than anything. We feed them with alcohol, drugs, processed foods and chemicals, yet we don’t think about everything our bodies do for us…our heart beating for example.
I bet if we closed our eyes and thought about it we could very quickly think of 10 things we are grateful for EVERY day of the year. In the spirit of that challenge here are 10 things I am grateful for TODAY.
1. Waking up this morning
2. My cat and dog for showing me love by being cuddled up with me when I woke up this morning.d
3. The beautiful sunrise
4. The cooler weather
5. The hundreds of birds in the tree in front of my neighbors house that I hear every morning as I am getting in my car.
6. My starbucks friends for having started both mine and Kevin’s drinks so they were ready to go by the time I paid.
7. David Baird giving me a note that said I am appreciated
8. Derrik coming into my office at 4:07 and asking me what I was still doing at the office (which reminded me to leave)
9. Fred challenging me on my way of thinking.
10. Archangel Michael for helping me to maintain my positive energy (and Jamie’s too!)
11. My home, because every time I walk in the door I feel happy and blessed.
12. Jax for greeting me at the door and climbing up my leg to say hello.
13. Reese for laying on her back and giving me her belly.
Ok, well that’s 13, whatever. The point is, that if every day, we could just slow down and take 5 minutes to reflect on what we are really grateful for, I think we would be that much more grateful EVERY day.
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!”
“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
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