For almost two years now I've had a list on my computer of things I am thankful for. When my computer broke last year I had to start over on the new one but I tried to remember most of the things I had written before. I just write more every once in a blue moon so my progress is slow but I have 610 so far. My list is very specific but I just wanted to summarize it here for you. Think of this as a) a reminder of the good stuff and b) inspiration to notice things even if you don't write them down. I was reading "Seeing" by Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek the other day for school and I came across this: "The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand." She was using pennies to represent all of the free gifts in the natural world that could be enjoyed if people would take the time. But she laments "Who gets excited by a penny" saying "It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny."
My own list is categorized to make things easier to find, but the following is just a summary.
- Hope
- Forgiveness
- Help
- Friendship
- Babies and children
- Animals
- Laughing
- Great conversations
- Beautiful natural sights
- Beautiful natural smells
- Cooking and baking smells!
- Beautiful noises (some natural like laughter and ice melting, others are man made like the sound of coffee percolating)
- Soup! Coffee! Tea! - Pretty much any warm liquid
- Sweet things!
- Salty things.
- Art (books, movies, paintings, photography, singing sculpture, plays, spoken word etcetera etcetera etcetera! I just love how art makes me feel!)
- Good health
- A roof over my head
- Access to food
- Light bulb moments
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