After I wrote my last post, I came up with an idea of a project for George and me to do to remind us how not so utterly wretched our lives are. For the next 30 days we are each writing five things for which we are thankful that day. Four days in, I must say, it's harder than I would have thought. The first five were easy -- food, job, husband, home, health, etc. After that it has taken some thought. It has forced me to think about all the little things in life that give me pleasure. All those things I just brush them aside to focus on the more dramatic "horrible" things. One of mine from today is that I'm thankful for the gentleman who plays hymns on his guitar in the subway station. I love hearing them because they are always songs I know and I really think about the lyrics. It always give me a lift while I am rushing through the station. I wonder how many other people know the songs are hymns and not just a pretty tune and if someone else gets a little lift like I do.
Another thing that I'm thankful for which I haven't put on my list because I don't quite know how to do it, is that I am thankful I am not dying or really sick. My sister's roommate from her first year at college has cancer and doesn't have long to live. She is so very, very young and has twin four-year old girls. It's just so sad. It makes you think how when you think life is just horrible, it could be so much worse and be thankful, really thankful, for what you have.
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