Things for Which I Am Grateful

July 2007

BY ARLENE HARDER, MA, MFT

July 4, 2007

I give thanks for life.

I give thanks for air-conditioning.

I give thanks for the lovely music on the radio that plays as I sit here and write.

. . . and much more.

July 5, 2007

I give thanks for life;

I give thanks for frilly daises in a vase on the table;

I give thanks for the fireworks last night on TV where I could sit in my house and vicariously enjoy both the Washington, DC, and New York shows;

. . . and much more.

July 7, 2007

I give thanks for life.

I give thanks for the men trimming our trees so in the next big windstorm they won't fall on our house.

I give thanks for the power tools they use so it doesn't have to be sawed by hand.

. . . and much more.

From July 8 to July 31, 2007

I give thanks for life.

I give thanks for hard-working waiters and waitresses.

I give thanks for designers of rug and furniture cleaning equipment that allow me to have a clean house.

I give thanks for workers who used the equipment to clean my house.

I give thanks for hotel maids who made our bed each day.

I give thanks for summer workers who cleaned our cabin.

I give thanks for foreign students who worked in kitchen at the Elderhostel resort.

I give thanks for college students who taught us sailing.

I give thanks for the person who created the Elderhostel intergenerational program.

I give thanks for lobsterman and his wife who described their life in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

I give thanks for manufacturer of buoys that kept us from running aground as we learned to sail.

I give thanks for my brother-in-law for making it easy to walk down the path to the creek.

I give thanks to my in-laws for planning the reunion.

I give thanks for the chance to watch children enjoy swimming.

I give thanks for the opportunity to take grandchildren on an Elderhostel trip.

. . . and much more.

© Copyright 2007, Arlene Harder, MA, MFT