What are the gifts that I have received from loved ones today?

In a lot of ways everything, my grandparents were second generation, the children of immigrants who came over to work fields trying to escape famines and brutal colonial rule ravaging their mother country and they worked so hard and were so frugal all their life, passing that onto my grandparents whom I was fortunate to spend a lot of my childhood around who then passed that onto me. I learned from them the value of frugality and consistent hard work, not giving up when times get hard and how to survive even in hostile environments as they encountered a lot of outright racism which they handled with grace and deep awareness of their worth. Everyday I live I am the benefactor of the love of loved ones and the love of strangers, I’ve been given a lot I feel and have every moment of my existence someone’s gifts to me that I have to be thankful for.

I have an incredible lineage having grown up in a beautiful place, the mountains and oceans raised me, the trees hugged and comforted me as I napped in their limbs, the birds sang their songs to enlighten my soul … and I was and have been always been given many gifts without having been asked for anything back, there was no memo of what I needed to return one day, these were all given out of the deep awareness that we all are interconnected, giving and receiving continually. Every breathe is given to me, fully, sweetly without any expectations, so I lean into these gifts and find in this moment perpetually grace.