Thank You, Universe
I don’t know if there’s a “who” responsible for life’s events or if we’re just lucky enough to live in a “system” where random things simply happen to us, around us, for us and against us. I do think, though, that people affect the balance just by being, so my goal in life - my only one, really - is to live the most positive existence I am capable of. Part of that is actively looking for life’s smaller “good things” and acknowledging them in some way. In that strange little mind of mine, I’m convinced that the energy I put into this is somehow affecting something, somewhere, in a positive way and contributing to more “good things” in this world. It’s like, karma on a really minute (possibly obsessive) scale.
Stuff I’m just grateful for…
Buttery sunshine on Sunday mornings, sunbeams streaming to the ground through openings in clouds, healthy kids, healthy friends, healthy pets, Crayola, fortune cookies, the ability to see in colour. (The ability to see at all, now that I think about it.)
Canadian Tire Money, snow days, The Great Lakes, platypi, mysteries, puppies & kittens & baby chicks, spring water, sunflowers, the colour green, the moon, amethyst, silver, acorns, hummingbirds, nurses, teachers, forests and creeks.
Toads, dragonflies, butterflies, bumblebees, bunnies, fresh air, morning glories, brownies, vines, Wikipedia, books, swings, porches, Halloween, imagination, fields of wheat, diversity in all things.
Spring, bananas, pandas, pistachios, myths & legends, caves, gardens, art, BBQs, my hands, words, the almighty cocoa bean, comfy blankets, drive-in theatres and the music in my head.
Cameras, memories, experience, paper, the Internet, courderoy, Forget-Me-Nots, cricket choruses, libraries, musicians, fog, algae, fireflies, lilacs, cotton, stars, ink, warm sand, pillows, ball pits, bubbles, duct tape, bird’s nests, Tiny Tom’s hot little donuts that you can only seem to get at fairs.
Chip trucks, ribbon, snail mail, pebbles, asparagus, citrus fruits, moss, cracked cement, Valentine’s Day, sparklers, desert sunlight, glass, vanilla, Sea Monkeys, aloe vera, coloured lace, big fat green grapes, thunderstorms big enough to knock the power out, chickadees and salmon - both the colour and the fish.
The beauty of sushi (and beauty in general), cinnamon, daisies, the smell of old books, clean laundry and rain.