Gratitude List

1. AA
2. AA meetings that are plentiful and diverse
3. Airplanes that are safe, accessible and affordable
4. Antibiotics
5. Antihistamines
6. Antiques and heirlooms
7. Art
8. Babies
9. Beaches to visit, and as part of my landscape growing up
10. Bed
11. Blogs to read from the comfort of my home
12. Boats
13. Bones for the dog
14. Books on CD for the car ride
15. Books to own and borrow without censorship
16. Calculators
17. Car
18. Car insurance
19. Caregivers
20. Cat litter (was there life before cat litter?)
21. Change
22. Chemotherapy
23. Children (adult children)
24. Church that is diverse, accepting and traditional
25. Cities that are safe and interesting
26. Clergy
27. Clouds
28. Coffee
29. Computers at home and work and many other places
30. Cousins (as an only child, they’ve meant a lot to me)
31. Crocheting and a crochet teacher
32. Democracy and elections
33. Dental implants
34. Dentists
35. Dialysis
36. Digital cameras
37. Dog parks
38. Dogs
39. Ebay
40. Electricity
41. Employment in a safe, comfortable place – in a job that lets me serve others
42. Eyeglasses
43. Eyesight that is good and easily corrected to perfect
44. Faith
45. Family
46. Fire
47. Fire fighters
48. Five senses – touch, taste, smell, hearing, seeing
49. (anti) Flea treatments – my life before them was often infested
50. Food that is affordable, plentiful, safe and interesting
51. Friends
52. Gay – being openly, safely gay
53. Glasses that correct eyesight
54. Graduations – the ones I’ve achieved, and the ones my loved ones have achieved
55. Grandparents, especially my mother’s parents, who helped raise me
56. Gratitude and the ability to appreciate things
57. Hawaii
58. Health insurance
59. Heating pads
60. Hillary Clinton and the historic campaign
61. History
62. Holidays
63. House that I love
64. Intelligence
65. Kittens
66. Libraries
67. Mammography
68. Medical attention that is some of the best in the world
69. Medical insurance that is excellent
70. Medications that are plentiful and affordable
71. Menopause (especially that I’ve lived this long)
72. Mobility and the ability to get from place to place
73. Mouse traps
74. Music
75. My mother
76. Nature
77. Neighbors
78. Netflix – so much info, so close at hand
79. Newcomers who make us remember what we’re here for, what is was like, and what we don’t want to return to
80. Non-violence, the attitude my parents raised me with
81. Novocaine
82. Obama – love him, and that I got to see this and participate
83. Oldtimers who don’t drink but keep coming to meetings
84. Paid holidays, vacations and sick leave
85. Pain relievers – Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen and aspirin
86. Parks
87. Peace
88. People of my prayer list
89. Pepsi
90. Pets – current, past and future
91. Pet food
92. Pet sitters
93. Plants – to eat and grow for the yard, for the dog
94. Police
95. Puppies
96. Rain (every living thing needs water)
97. Rainbows (are cheerful, no matter what)
98. Reading – the physical and mental ability, and the desire and love
99. Recycling, often made easy (curbside pick up)
100. Religion – freedom of and from
101. Roads that are paved, plowed, salted and somewhat safe
102. Safety – the relative safety of my environment, always
103. School – good schools, for me and for my kids
104. Seasons
105. Serenity
106. Smoking – the ability to quit
107. Sobriety
108. Sonograms and sonogram technicians
109. Stores – nearby, and well stocked with everything I need or want
110. Sun and sunlight
111. Teachers
112. Television
113. Toothbrushes and toothpaste
114. Town
115. Transportation that is safe and available for going places near and far
116. Two pregnancies, two children
117. Vaccines
118. Water that is clean, safe and plentiful, and hot!
119. Weather that is safe and varied and not too extreme
120. Wifey
121. Wireless internet
122. Work partner Irene who covers for me when I need her to
123. Yarn that is affordable, plentiful and interesting