Here's a non-comprehensive list of things that I'm so grateful for in this moment...
-Love, in all the ways I'm lucky enough to experience it
-Lattes
-The last 2 days I have of my stable day job, and the last 7 financially stable months I've experienced because of it
-My smile, and how easy it is to find it in any situation
-My tears, and how easy it is to find them in any situation
-All the clothes that I've been lugging around for the last few years, that are always there in my closet, ready for me to wear, no matter how many times I decide I'm sick of them
-My parents' medical and dental insurance, which I'm still young enough to benefit from
-Urban development and skyscrapers, which give my ho-hum data entry job the fun perk of a lovely view of downtown and the sky above Capitol Hill
-Milk, and all milk-based products (especially cheese)
-"Big Business"/the corporate concept, which allows me (and many others) the anonymity to make mistakes in my job that won't ever be traced back to or blamed on me
-Compassion, which, when others choose to exhibit it, tells me that when I make mistakes, it doesn't make me a "bad person"
-Supportive friends, family, lovers, acquaintances, and strangers
-Animal noises
-Human noises
-The wonderful people I've met in unlikely places
-Communication, in its most clear and most failed applications, plus everything in between
-My heart, both the physical organ that keeps blood pumping through my veins, and my internal concept of a container in which to project all my ideas of emotions and feelings and compassion and all that stuff that supposedly makes me "human"
-My digestive system, and how it's put up with all my shit this whole time (pun intended)
-My birth mother, whose fateful decision to give me up was the first of many paths taken that make up the journey of my life
-Giggliness
-Lightly sauteed broccoli with garlic, potato samosas, and sandwiches that are so beautiful that they uproot any other lunch plans I may have
-The cardboard-box-robot I saw today, walking around downtown with ridged limbs and "So long, earthlings" scrawled on the back of his head.
