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Gratefulness
Let’s not say our names or what we do for a living. If we are married and how many times. Single, gay, or vegan.
Let’s not mention how far we got in school. Who we know, what we’re good at or no good at, at all.
Let’s not hint at how much money we have or how little. Where we go to church or that we don’t. What our Sun Sign is our Enneagram number our personality type according to Jung or whether we’ve ever been Rolfed, arrested, psychoanalyzed, or artificially suntanned.
Let’s refrain, too, from stating any ills. What meds we’re on including probiotics. How many surgeries we’ve survived or our children’s children’s problems. And, please— let’s not mention who we voted for in the last election.
Let’s do this instead: Let’s start by telling just one small thing that costs us nothing but our attention.
Something simple that nourishes the soul of our bones. How it was this morning stooping to pet the sleeping dog’s muzzle before going off to work.
Or yesterday, walking in the woods spotting that fungus on the stump of a maple so astonishingly orange it glowed like a lamp.
Or just now, the sound of your own breath rising or sinking at the end of this sentence.
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