Count Your Many Blessings

See what God hath done:

• My family.  The older I get the more I realize how fabulous they are.
• My well paying, steady job.  Even though I'm not saving the world.
• My 2.5 bedroom apartment.  I still celebrate that it's all mine. 
• My good health.  I must have my mom's gene's.  Thanks Mom!
• My new boyfriend.  Even though the jury is still out on what the future holds, it's wonderful having someone to care about, someone to share time with, someone who makes me look at the world a little differently.
• The opportunities I've had to travel to parts of the world I would never normally get to see outside of my profession:
• South Africa - Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope
• Kenya - orphaned elephants, Karen Von Blixen's house, game reserve
• Rwanda - wild gorillas (Sousa Family with two sets of twin babies)
• Zambia - Victoria Falls (swimming along the edge of the falls)
• My Brain.  I am grateful I can analyze, articulate and make conscious decisions.
• My childhood.  I'm grateful for it's wholesomeness, my long-held innocence, the majesty I was enveloped by growing up in the West.
• People in my life who inspire, touch or move me through their grace, simplicity and acts of beauty.
• Heart-break.  It taught me what it feels like to love, be loved, dream and loose dreams.  Heartbreak enables me to connect and understand heart break felt by others.  I am more three-dimensional because of it.
• Trees.  Trees are next to godliness.  They are a grounding power, a solace, healers and companions.  They protect, nurture and imbue peace. 
• Activists.  I am deeply grateful for people  brave enough to be outspoken on the ethical treatment of animals, respecting our planet and leaving women off the legislative chopping block.