Say Thanks

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Say Thanks

*Nana's Girl with those sweet little feet*

Tuesday morning... after a night of rolling thunder and a great rain... Morning coffee and the promise of a hot one today, sun come on and SHINE... For this day I give thanks... and so it is! 

Say Thanks for thing in the morning and all during your day... So much and so many to be thankful for ~


Let us remember to be grateful for the simple everyday gifts we receive. The gift of a smile, a friend sitting with with us over a cup of coffee, the devotion of a four legged, good books, the beauty of music, the majesty of our gulf waters and the sea life, the winged ones, the North American Black Bears (Hope now has bling around her neck allowing the folks at http://www.bear.org/ to monitor her wanderings)! Life is indeed a grand adventure or nothing at all like Helen Keller said oh so long ago ~ STOMP in gratitude and great thanks... for and to all ~
The list is endless. The gifts bountiful. Some, in nature, like the sun, the rain, fog, moonlight, shadows and breezes.

Some, we give, and many more we receive.

It is easy to move through the day without stopping to really define these as gifts. Some seem so ordinary that we treat them as non events. But, our days are filled with these gifts. The everyday knowledge that we call the place we lay our head at night “home”. Most everyone will admit that they look forward to “going home”, or coming home” at the end of a long day at work, but do we really allow ourselves to know what a gift this is?
Do we take it for granted?

Do we appreciate it consciously?

I am, in the moment, aware that not everyone enjoys a roof over their head. A place to return to that one feels safe and familiar.
 Do we go to work feeling that it is a burden, or, know, really know that we are fortunate to have a job that sustains us. That allows us some degree of financial comfort.


We have abundant water, indoor plumbing, a clean bed to sleep in, food on the table, the ability to get back and forth to work. Most of which we take for granted. And yet, so many have none of these comforts.
See a man or woman in a uniform today? Be sure and thank them for serving...
So let’s be about appreciating what we have right here, right now. We need not waste our time coveting that which we have not yet acquired, but rather be thankful for all that we do have.

The ordinary and extraordinary people, comforts, small joys and accomplishments that are ours in this moment.

Let us be filled up with gratitude every day. Some days we struggle. Some days are difficult. We wrestle with so many self made crisis in our lives that we often forget to wrap our heads around the enormity of all that we can appreciate that is good in our lives. It is a matter of perspective.

 I cannot ponder the half full glass when mine brims over. I encourage each of us to first be grateful. To keep our focus on the many good and great moments each day holds.

Acknowledge the gifts, say thank you often.


Angst, depression and anger can find little traction in a deeply grateful heart and mind.

Today I wish you awareness of all that you have to be thankful for. I am thankful for each of you that visit here. I appreciate your thoughts, your words, your time.

 I am grateful for the opportunity to write, and for your loyalty in reading. Wado.

I am blessed... pass it on with thanks and gratitude...
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