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For the past few years I have woken up on November 1st and made the first of 30 posts about the things for which I am most grateful. I have decided not to do 30DoT this year. Each year I get to about day 20 and start to feel like a jerk when all I can post is “D20/30 - thankful for new running shoes they have made all the difference!.” or I do one post to make up for the last five days I missed. Although I had always thought of myself as a grateful person, I think now a better description would be: thoughtful and appreciative. Gratitude is something entirely different, and if you know me you will know that I believe words matter. Today I would say I am truly a grateful person. It is bittersweet for me to feel that way now, and not have been able to be in that space a year ago. I also know that, despite my will to the contrary, in the days and months to come I will find myself having to dig very deep to exercise my gratitude, to be grateful - but I will work hard to do it each and every day. More than ever, I know unpleasant stuff, hardships, and cruelties happen to each of us. In short, I know that bad things happen to good people,and I know that they happen for no reason, they just happen. I know that they will continue to happen from time to time as well. With that knowledge it is crystal clear to me that while I am so grateful that I can still afford to live on my own, and I am able to feed and clothe myself and the girls (who would rather run around naked); even those things aren’t at the top of my list. What I am truly grateful for today, and will work to be grateful for all of my remaining days, is the exquisite life Dave and I made that has placed us on the path of so many wonderful people. I know with one-hundred percent certainty that this life would not be worth living - or that I would even have the capability of living it - without the people I call my support team. So with that I am not going to post each and every day this month about gratitude. (besides I don’t want to give anyone a big head - it is a team and I need you all working together) Instead I will do my best to let each of you know how grateful I am to have you in my life not just this month but for all of the rest of our months.

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