Happy Thanksgiving! – 27 November 2008

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s Thanksgiving here where I am, but not in the US, quite yet. Another few hours and it will be. Oh, I have so very much to be Thankful for!

I’m thankful my toilet flushes with a push of a button. That’s huge when it’s the single most used appliance in one’s life.

I’m thankful my toilet is attached to my room, another biggie given the frequency of use.

I’m thankful I have a cross breeze in my room. The air is fresh and scrubbed clean by the rain and wind and is not stagnant and dead.

I’m thankful I have local friends who care about me, 9,000 miles from home, who check in on me and make sure I’m safe and reasonably well.

I’m thankful I have friends back home who send healing in the causal realm where time and distance don’t matter.

I’m thankful I have a roof over my head. Many people here don’t.

I’m thankful I have a bed under my body. Again, many people here don’t.

I’m thankful I’m in India! On a spiritual quest! On a personal quest! ‘nuff said.

I’m thankful the ants are cleaning out the remains of the melted chocolate from my waistpack and are mostly staying off of my bed. Occasionally, one will blow from the windowsill to my monitor and I blow it back off, but on the whole, they are sticking to their path.: under the window casing, across the sill, down the wall to the floor, around three sides of the room where the wall meets the floor, up the wall to the waistpack on the shelf. I figure since they are well behaved, I’ll let them finish the job. They’re obviously benefiting and I didn’t know how I was going to clean it the chocolate off the objects, anyway. A friend wasn’t so fortunate, the ants in her room marched across her bed, biting her along the way.

I’m thankful for my computer and the skill to use it to merge both halves of my life, which are equally important to me. I am grounded by using the technology to advance spiritual, artistic and healing energy all around this planet

I’m thankful when the ISP is up, I have Internet from my bed, even when the power is out, as long as I sit in a certain spot. The café next door offers free wifi with purchase, and I take most of my meals there anyway, when I can eat that is. Since the monsoon has intensified in the last few days, it’s been up for 5 minute windows on and off, which has been quite useful for sending out emails that I’ve queued up and receiving emails from others. Who has Internet from their room here??? It’s unheard of!

I’m thankful for all my teachers, be they human or virus or weather or whatever. I’m truly blessed.

I’m thankful for all my mirrors. Um, that would be you.

I’m thankful for my children, my entire family and all of my past, without which, I wouldn’t be me.

Most of all, I’m thankful for me. I don’t think I have ever been before. If that’s the only thing I get from this journey, it’s the gift of a lifetime.

Happy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for?