I liked this ‘thankfulness’ post over on Vixiss’ Vicissitudes blog today, and wanted to do my own. So here goes
Things I am grateful for
1. Having cats in my house to love
2. Still being loved by my wife Irene after all these years
3. The warm sun on a cool day
4. Hearing the birds around our home in the morning
5. Seeing wildlife near our yard
6. Being able to retire before I am too old to enjoy it
7. Still having all my brothers and sisters, even if I do forget to call them
8. Having a best friend I’m still in touch with, Chris, who remembers me from High School
9. The smell of coffee and warm toast (or Pop Tarts!) in the morning
These are some great things to be thankful for. Practicing gratitude every day does wonders.
Being thankful is definitely something I need to do more frequently, Emily. And thank you for your comment!
Taking stock of how fortunate we are is a wise and just policy. The world could do with a little more gratitude, from us, its denizens. Oh, and dude, there’s a bear outside your house! We don’t have stuff like that in South East London 🙂
There have been several visiting bears here over the 3-plus years we’ve lived in the Kootenays: to be honest, I kind of like having them around. We are in an acreage subdivision on the side of a small mountain with ‘wild’ forest all around, so pretty much right in the middle of the black bear’s turf.
So far the bears only show up for brief walk-throughs. Once or twice a single youngster stopped by to eat berries from a vine on our property. Another time on a hot day a ‘family’ of four splashed around in a kiddie swimming pool that we had out in the yard for our dog. They haven’t been destructive: just on their way through.
That one in the picture on the original post was a youngster that was part of the kiddie pool visiting family from a year ago. Cute thing, really: probably 50 kilos or so, or about half the size of his ‘mom’ at the time.