Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving: Grateful for 2014

Being a compilation of all the "grateful for" thoughts in the Sensorium this past year...

I begin being grateful on clear January days/nights;
with sleep, good sleep;
and dreams, dreams, dreams.

Thank goodness there are stories. Books. Early nights in
and books written so well the sentences make you swoon — Books!;
And words, reading, thinking, bursts of creativity — and, at last, inspiration.

 I head out for the globe, walking, walking;
 O! So thankful for my feet;
Into adventures - small and large, in hometowns and far flung.

There's socializing, dancing, anticipating concerts;
Imagine solar sails for space - the Sunjammer Project;
I am grateful for endurance.

And, then, I am grateful for my home;
hugging my purring cat, a comic book box;
Sam.

In spring, there's the fruit stand and farmers' markets. Flowers!
I take out the kitchen tools: blender, juicer; and there's
The Happy Cow Cookbook: Recipes from Top-Rated Vegan Restaurants Around the World.

I appreciate specificity,
The Humane Society (also Paul Shapiro really puts out a nice e-newsletter);
Inspectors of Broad Slow Social Change (i.e. Rebecca Solnit);
I think of slow utopia, orchids, Kuan Yin.

There's something about a small accomplishment; a quiet demeanor;
I look at a "Dreamer of World Peace," statue of Peace Leader Sri Chinmoy at Lake Union, installed November 7, 2010 in Fremont, Seattle beside the Sound.

I dream of aging well and gracefully;
I am grateful for memories of tastes and smells;
And, there's always the possibility of memoir. As it has not been an easy year.

 I am grateful for every one of you, this day;
And experience deep feelings of contentment and love;
You, friends, this day. And then, at last, I give thanks with all my heart.