Green

Flower

Yoyo the Bathtub Acrobat

I am grateful for Yoyo the Bathtub Acrobat -

FREE Frosty at Wendy's

Quiche

Made quiche yesterday -


I am grateful for good food - and being able to cook it - 

Water for Survival Kit

Got a free bottle of water for our survival kit at the Red Cross Disaster Preparedness Fair on Saturday -

Hope Worldwide
HOPE worldwide was founded in response to the Scriptures, which call us to have the heart of Jesus by serving the poor and needy throughout the world. We began in 1991 with three small local programs. Today HOPE worldwide operates on every inhabited continent, serving more than two million people annually.

Red Cross Survival Kit List
At a minimum, you should have the basic supplies listed below:

Water—one gallon per person, per day (3-day supply for evacuation, 2-week supply for home)

Food—non-perishable, easy-to-prepare items (3-day supply for evacuation, 2-week supply for home)

Flashlight

Battery-powered or hand-crank radio (NOAA Weather Radio, if possible)

Extra batteries

First aid kit – Anatomy of a First Aid Kit

Medications (7-day supply) and medical items

Multi-purpose tool

Sanitation and personal hygiene items

Copies of personal documents (medication list and pertinent medical information, proof of address, deed/lease to home, passports, birth certificates, insurance policies)

Cell phone with chargers

Family and emergency contact information
Extra cash

Emergency blanket

Map(s) of the area

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I am grateful for all the people and organizations who help others -

LOVE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY

Surprises

I am grateful for surprises - 

Happier

Colors

Fawns in the Park

Lucky

Small Opportunities

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

~ Demosthenes

Happy Feet

Courage

City Flea

Camera

A Beautiful Day, A Walk in the Park

Quiet Time in the Morning

So many things to be grateful for . . .

Simplicity

I am grateful for the simplicities of summer - like slipping on a pair of flip-flops before going out -

Tree

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. 

I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. 

And even more I revere them when they stand alone. 

. . . In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. 

Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. . .

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. 

. . . A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
. . . So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. 

But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. 

Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
 
~ Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

FREE

Lucky

Vision

Viva

Anger

I am grateful for what anger can show us and motivate us to do, as long as it isn't allowed to run wild . . .

Groceries

Butterfly

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

~ Brian Tracy

Flowers as Big as Saucers

Popovers

Honey

Kindness

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

~ Marc Estrin