thanks

I've been thinking a lot about gratitude lately.  I think because I've been stressed out about my job, gearing up for graduate school applications and thinking ahead to next year, studying for the GRE, worrying about money, etc. - sometimes I forget that there are plenty of amazing things happening in my life and I have so much for which to be thankful.  And everywhere I look there are signs that God, whatever he or it is, is taking care of me and my people.  I've been trying to say thanks in whatever small ways I can, whether it's to people that I love, strangers on the street, or just the sky above me.  Just so the universe knows that I am sincerely grateful for all that I have, all that I am.  Thank you.

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

-e.e. cummings