Immense Thanks (from FaceBook)

Right now there are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness.

Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.

Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life.

Nuns in the Alps are in endless vigil, praying for the Holy Spirit to alight the hearts of all of God's children.

A farmer is looking at his organic crops and whispering, "nourish them."

Someone wants to kiss you, to hold you, to make tea for you.

Someone is willing to lend you money, wants to know what your favorite food is, and treat you to a movie.

Someone in your orbit has something immensely valuable to give you — for free.

Something is being invented this year that will change how your generation lives, communicates, heals and passes on.

The next great song is being rehearsed.

Thousands of people are in yoga classes right now intentionally sending light out from their heart chakras and wrapping it around the earth.

Millions of children are assuming that everything is amazing and will always be that way.

Someone is in profound pain, and a few months from now, they'll be thriving like never before. From where they are, they just can't see it .

Someone who is craving to be partnered, to be acknowledged, to arrive, will get precisely what they want — and even more. And because that gift will be so fantastical in it's reach and sweetness, it will quite magically alter their memory of angsty longing and render it all "So worth the wait."

Someone has recently cracked open their joyous, genuine nature because they did the hard work of hauling years of oppression off of their psyche — this luminous juju is floating in the ether, and is accessible to you.

Someone just this second wished for world peace, in earnest.

Some civil servant is making sure that you get your mail, and your garbage is picked up, that the trains are running on time, and that you are generally safe.

Someone is dedicating their days to protecting your civil liberties and clean drinking water.

Someone is regaining their sanity.

Someone is coming back from the dead.

Someone is genuinely forgiving the seemingly unforgivable.

Someone is curing the incurable.

You. Me. Some. One. Now.

~ Danielle LaPorte via

Mary Standing Otter

ART: Caroline Maniere

I am so thankful for many blessings in my life.

Yesterday I got my broken filling fixed at the dental clinic, an emergency appointment was available within 2 days of calling for one. How nice to have my chompers in as good a shape as they can be these days (meaning in this time of COVID, as well as this time of my life!)

I'm looking forward to a short zoom talk with my family today sometime. I know two members are joining another family of four. I don't know about the family of 5, nor the mixed family of maybe 5 or 6.

Such is the way our families are existing these days...working people, two who are in college, one working from home for a high school, and those whose jobs kind of stopped last spring...what a sad time for us all. But we're looking for rainbows still.

I have begun eating plant based foods (mainly) and so no turkey for this gal. I still eat yogurt made from milk. I don't know what kind of stir-fry I'll have, probably with rice. I may do some mashed potatoes...just because they sound good, and I can do them with Rice Dream rather than milk and butter. And I'm set for making some dynamite spinach salads! Lots of fresh veggies!

I hope everyone out there reading this has a Happy Thanksgiving.