When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
~Willie Nelson

I am so thankful that I am getting to live at home right now.
I am so thankful that the Utah sky is so blue and from the rain everything is green.
I am thankful to be 33 years old and healthy.
I am thankful for the lack of drama in my life.

I am thankful that I have support around me even when I am in a cocoon.

I am thankful for my blonde hair.
I am thankful that I can get in my car and drive anywhere I want.
I am thankful that I do not have any children.
I am thankful for all the places I’ve lived and the slew of experiences in each one – Portland, Boise, and San Diego.
I am thankful that I have a lovely home base in Utah.
I am thankful that I have such a great and young mom.
I am thankful that I have money in the bank.
I am thankful for my many friends.

I am thankful that the world we live in is so beautiful.

I am thankful for the simple pleasures of life – writing, eating tomato soup for lunch, sipping a latte near a sunny window.
I am thankful for the people around me, even the ones I don’t talk to who just make up my atmosphere.

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.

And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.
~Charles Dickens

photos by A. Pagliaricci ◄◄,  Capture Queen ™, and cursedthing