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Today I’m grateful for music and for Plato

to his words I often cling :

Music, he said, gives soul to the universe

Wings to the mind

Flight to the imagination

And life to everything…

Today I’m grateful for understanding the importance of time

For it is my belief…my contention….

That whenever our children need it…

we should find the time

to give them our undivided attention.

Today I’m grateful for my parents…

For this simple genetical reason why…

If my parents didn’t have any children

there’s a good chance…neither would have I

Today I’m grateful for the art of Mother Nature…

her landscapes I prefer…

for no artist who ever was 

or is 

can paint any better than her

I’m grateful every day

for mistakes I’ve made along the way

not grateful that I made a mistake

but grateful that I continue to learn

from every one I make.

Today I would be grateful 

If everyone understood each person’s value 

each person’s worth

A good way for that to happen is if we treated everyone we meet

as if they were the last person on the Earth

Today I’m grateful for empathy…

because when I look out at the world 

it’s easy for me to see

Family, friendship, love and peace

all begin with empathy,

Today I’m grateful I still have my child eyes…

because with them I’m aware

as I look out on the world

there is still beauty and magic everywhere.

Today I’m grateful for universal love…

It’s something I think a lot of…

And I pray for the day we realize

We are all just different expressions

of that one universal love.