Gratitude List:
1.  Watching fireflies rise from the fields while the children dance around and chase them.
2.  Pearl, that little white dog who loves my dad so very much.  She watches everyone who enters a room, but gets a particular look of adoration in her big brown eyes when her Pawpaw comes in.
3.  Sitting around the table with the family, laughing together.
4.  Spinning wool with my nephews.
5.  Gypsy Wind.  It unsettles me and fills me with longing, and makes me want to take wing.  In the end, it always reminds me why I love this here, this when.  So I am grateful, even when my spirit longs to wander.

“You are beautiful, and I have loved you dearly, more dearly than the spoken word can tell.”  –Roger Whittaker