I’m not in denial.  I know things are grim in our world.

But they are not only grim.  I want to focus my energy and thinking on good things tonight.  I can’t do anything about the bad stuff in the next eight hours.  But I can REBOOT.

I am thankful for the following things:

• Popcorn: so cheap and healthy! ENDless variety.  Beautiful.
• Jane Austen everything
• Elevators. They’re like magic.
• The lovely heartwarming rituals around the act of making a hot drink.
• Rain ☔ like a fresh start for the 🌎
• Galoshes with charming polka dots on them
• Calico quilts
• Buttermilk pancakes with butter and jelly, a big 🔥 stack.
• Calculators
• Pencil sharpeners, the old fashioned kind that attach to the wall.
• Eye liner.
• Ducks.  They are so comical.  Even the sound They Make is whimsical.  Honk! Quack!
• Easter egg hunts
• Christmas trees
• Waking up and realizing it’s the beginning of the holidays
• Flannel pajamas and bunny slippers
• Flowers: God would not have had to make so many kinds or make them smell good.  How would we ever know different?  
• Black Adder, the WW II episodes or the queen Elizabeth episodes.  They make me 😃 just remembering them.  “Where are my socks?  Its Like someone is stealing them or something. ” Everything about Baldric. 💛