late and trite, but thankful

for...

- second chances
- 'morning has broken'
- revelations and insights, however quickly they may pass
- a family that loves me despite so many errors and so much whiny behavior
- martin sexton's 'hallelujah' - and a room of people singing those four syllables acapella together - and listening to those sounds while watching autumn color on a japanese hillside go by the train window
- dc
- flashes that illustrate life isn't as complex as it sometimes seems
- instant contentment of animals
- titles of poetry books
- muscle tension and relaxation
- the olympic theme song and lee shwa shwung (spelled phonetically, not accurately - a Korean gymnast during the 1996 - I think - olympics) and kristi yamaguchi and related schwan's ice cream commericals
- 'blade' and kurt browning in leather pants and 'trapped' by bruce springsteen
- 'quiet things no one knows'
- a sister to have private jokes with and who is awesome enough to be in africa working to save this planet of ours ... and also awesome enough to know how 'shiloh you ate my grain' is connected to neil diamond
- walking labryinths in gauzy scarves
- scarves in general
- singing 'you are the new day' on a monday night in a church next to the ocean with a group of inspiring people
- snow
- sheep mittens
- walking arm in arm and all it implies
- confidence
- 'plastic soul man'
- non-arrogant artists
- the first meal after a long hike
- smell of dirt
- genuine compliments
- deserving genuine compliments
- coffee-flavored milk out of a glass bottle after an onsen
- 'both sides now'
- working hard and seeing the results
- hope
- laptop computers and the 'internets'
- so many good memories to choose from
- feeling 'infinite'
- honesty
- unexpected confirmations that you are doing the right thing, that there is a reason why what is happening is happening