Gratitude List:
1.  Color.  I am still in the haven of Michelle Johnson’s beautiful list of colors from the other day.  I think I am pretty good at noticing the colors around me, and then someone comes along and gives me such delicious words for color, and suddenly the shade and hue and vibrancy all around me is so much richer.  *Today, I am specifically grateful for the rosy beige color of onion skins and then way their hue and roundness matches the eggs I bring down from the hens.
2.  Even after he had announced (twice) that he would not be going to school today, when I said it was time to leave, Joss jumped up and scampered down the hill to the car.
3.  The way Pepita Hen’s feathers have come back in after being pecked by her coopmates and being chomped by a skunk.  She looks like a new bird, sleek and shiny.  There’s a new sparkle in her eye.  If that poor tattered little henny can grow back her feathers with such grace, maybe I can, maybe you can, too.
4.  You.  The way you open your arms and your heart to love even when you know that you will likely have to say goodbye.  You know that love is what matters, in the long run.  Your love will heal so much of what hurts in the world.
5.  Sunrise.

May we walk in Beauty.