Today, I'm told, is my Happy Gross Day! A gross is a dozen dozen, or 144. LOL! I actually think that's very clever. So today I celebrate Gross Day. I'd mark it on my calendar to celebrate it each year, but there's only one time it can truly be Gross Day, and that's right here, right now.
And, when you think about it, that's a really good lesson for us all. It's easy to get caught up in rituals, in looking forward to specific days as holidays or remembrance days. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but there's also a great deal to be said for living in the moment. Today, this day, cannot be repeated. Who was it that said each minute is a coin that can be spent but once? Whoever it was, they're right.
This day, regardless of all else that goes on, I am healthy. I feel good. My lungs are healing each minute of this day because I have chosen not to fill them with toxic fumes and poisonous gasses. Today I have people around me who genuinely care about me, and after the beginning I had... I know the value of that. Today, my kids and grand-kids are happy people who, though they face challenges, are blessed with enough.
This moment I have the joy of knowing there are things for which I must work. I have no doubt that I'd wither up and become useless if I had nothing to which I aspired. So today, I have goals and the good sense to appreciate them. I also have a moderately capable and resourceful spirit and mind, and the foolish belief that one day I'll achieve my dreams.
Right this minute, I see, I hear, I feel, I catch the scent of spring on the breeze, I sing. True it may be that some of what I feel is the aches of age, some of what I see includes wrinkles where once I had none, some of what I hear is less than harmonious. But the point is - I can. And if I so choose, I can work to change the things I feel could be improved.
So for right now -- I take time out for thankfulness. I could probably come up with about eleventy billion things to complain about, but I feel better counting the joys I have.
I am alive -|- I am smoke free -|- I am free
Now... having said all that....
In about an hour, we're going to get in the truck and head south through the San Diego traffic. I reserve the right to retract everything I just wrote and go postal.
:-)