Thank you for aimless walks with Peaches.

Thank you for how much we gain by doing less.

Thank you for our growing awareness that our individual actions impact the entire world.

Thank you for our growing awareness that we share our space, that all of our wellbeings are intertwined and all of us deserve a space to thrive.

Thank you for the opportunity within crisis to prompt lasting change for common good.

Thank you for learning that flows from difficult lessons.

Thank you for unselfish, realistic optimism.

Thank you for miso ramen.

Thank you for free online yoga videos.

Thank you for intuition and divine guidance, and for trust in something greater than ourselves.

Thank you for the lucky happy feeling nature’s beauty inspires, like how it feels to catch sight of a rainbow or a dolphin or a deer.

Thank you for raspberries and for raspberries with chocolate.

Thank you for Unity booch.

Thank you for insights and solutions that land on us without our trying or choosing.

Thank you for faith that the insights and solutions are on their way when we don’t yet see them.

Thank you for kisses from Peaches.

Thank you for quiet nights.

Thank you for warm baths.

Thank you for caring neighbors.

Thank you for people who wave.

Thank you for windy bike rides.

Thank you for old books that speak the living words of dead people.

Thank you for quick-drying towels.

Thank you for leaves.

Thank you for the awe of thunder and lightning.

Thank you for favors received and favors paid forward.

Thank you for thoughtful surprises.

Thank you for falling down and getting back up again and again and again and again…

Thank you for animals living in harmony with other animals.

Thank you for velvet hums in still rooms.

Thank you for the dream of floating on the ocean and the water got too deep too fast and the waves crashed willy nilly and a shark fin peeked up and I knew that I was in strange territory and I knew that I was afraid.

Thank you for an active imagination.

Thank you for the blissful calm of a warm blanket.

Thank you for the power of music to have its way with our hearts.

Thank you for prickly succulents.

Thank you for forgiveness.

Thank you for faith.

Thank you for when slow motion dreams call for patience.

Thank you for today.

Thank you for tomorrow.

Thank you for clean air to breathe.

Thank you for when Peaches rolls on her back and stretches one paw or two, and I rub her tummy.

Thank you for a dad who loved me.

Thank you for the spicy-fresh taste of arugula that lingers like a funky breath mint.

Thank you for hill repeats.

Thank you for spare tubes.

Thank you for texts with Anita.

Thank you for texts with Sister.

Thank you for texts with Moon.

Thank you for alone time outside.

Thank you for people who find love.

Thank you for the Santa Monica Mountains.

Thank you for the Sandia Mountains.

Thank you for the eucalyptus trees at the lot, for how peaceful it feels to watch their branches sway and to breathe them in.

Thank you for changing seasons.

Thank you for strength to keep moving forward even the tiniest amount.

Thank you for an organized closet.

Thank you for dark chocolate.

Thank you for facial expressions on dogs—especially surprise.

Thank you for the way LEDs light a room.

Thank you for home-cooked meals.

Thank you for neighbors who give you their old sweaters that they don’t wear anymore.

Thank you for fresh cracked pepper.

Thank you for the word “hugelkultur.”

Thank you for elderly folks who watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy on the reg.

Thank you for cats on leashes and for cats running free.

Thank you for the possibility of what seems impossible.

Thank you for Cali.

Thank you for UCLA.

Thank you for redwoods and beaches and winding mountain roads.

Thank you for fresh produce and local wine and warm smiles.

Thank you for innovation and role models.

Thank you for can-do attitudes.

Thank you for compostable poop bags.

Thank you for clean water.

Thank you for hair and nails that grow.

Thank you for YouTube videos on how to cut your own hair.

Thank you for empty journal pages.

Thank you for uplifting messages like “inspiration is everywhere” and “greet the unexpected boldly” debossed on pencils.

Thank you for irreverent greeting cards.

Thank you for the good kind of poetry.

Thank you for the word “antiquity” in French (antiquité).

Thank you for a dream of a pet bull (Ferdinand!), gleefully adored, even if he did have a little bit of bullshit smeared down his bottom.

Thank you for vegan takeout.

Thank you for El Dorado.

Thank you for the surplus of Juans in ABQ.

Thank you for light jokes and deep laughter.

Thank you for weirds.

Thank you for Jenny Slate’s stories.

Thank you for the feeling of I have enough already.

Thank you for heavy eyelids.

Thank you for when it’s easy to fall asleep.

Thank you for night toots.

Thank you for dogs dreaming out loud.