“I can’t tell you why your story is important, only that it is.”
— Mara Eve Robbins, at TEDxFloyd in Floyd, Virginia today

Gratitude List:
1.  Wise friends
2.  The zebra-stripey heads of the white-crowned and white-throated sparrows, extra intense this time of year.  The white-throat’s vivid yellow eyebrows.  And to think, I used to blow them all off as just a bunch of little brown jobs.
3.  This developmental stage of my children.  They still fight and carry on and get needy and demanding, but they can entertain each other for long periods of time while I get other things done, too.  I feel like my own life is expanding.
4.  Sore muscles–feels like lots of good work got done today.
5.  Cool, clear water.

May we walk in Beauty.