Grateful for the little things ✨

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This morning, I woke up grateful for a decent night’s sleep, thanks to the mosquito net we installed a few days ago on our farm.

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Relatives, friends and members of our human family are suffering —because of Covid, old age, deprivation, illness — and so I’m, especially, grateful for good health and do not take for granted something as simple as a stocked kitchen pantry.

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Or a healthy, delicious snack like this : cracker, cheese, guava paste and an apple with lemon water.

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To a large extent, our happiness (or at least, contentment) is within our hands, if we properly take stock of all our good fortune and blessings.

Surveying the landscape of our farm, it’s hard not to be grateful for all this natural beauty and the sweet bird song that gladdens the heart.

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And while I’m giving thanks for the plenty and the little, I add to my gratitude list this morning: clean laundry 🧺 (which we hand-washed and hung out to dry in the pure mountain air)

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As a more practical way of showing my appreciation, I went out to water new plants that we’ve added to our garden as well as 30 palm trees we, recently transplants. And they, in turn will show their gratitude by growing & blooming 🪴🌴

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Take nothing for granted, I remind myself; it could all be taken away, tomorrow.

Thank God, for this day 🙏🏽✨

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