Daily Reminder # 670

I'm going to just post one long video today.  The President's speech at the Vietnam War Memorial. I was in college during the Vietnam years. I had friends who served and were never the same. I'm not a warrior type patriot. I think wars are a stupid waste of life. Once in a while they are unavoidable, but not very often. I was moved by this speech and the ceremony that went with it.  I don't like the military, but I am awed by people brave enough to risk their lives - even if I don't completely agree with their choices.  I am awed by the courage of so many who go on without legs or arms, burdened with guilt and profound trauma.  Not my road, maybe, and a life I can't imagine. I think wars are ignoble, but I think people can behave in profoundly noble ways in even the most vile situations. 

Some things I'm grateful for today: (Items in red are pre-gratitude, an embrace of the possible and an effort to endear myself to the Creative Forces of the Universe so that they will bestow upon me my fondest wishes.)

• Angel and Tara Grace
• my little house
• coffee and Int'l Delight
• open windows
• granola bars
• water
• my computer
• the internet
• email
• the view from my front window
• my back yard
• my camera
• my generous friends Nate and Dan
• a clothes dryer
• a newer TV
• the remote control
• the mute button
• computer games
• my chair/walker
• my cane
• that my legs still wobble me around with help
• my grabber
• electricity
• my Tibetan salt lamps
• my rock collection
• the telephone
• fans and ceiling fans
• a wet rag on the back of my neck
• my microwave
• my kitchen
• my bathroom
• indoor plumbing
• my electric toothbrush
• toothpaste
• Listerine
• breath
• my heart
• my brain
• my body
• sight
• taste
• touch
• smell
• hearing
• music
• Pandora Radio
• my awesome Bose speakers
• the joy of listening
• the joy of singing
• YouTube
• Google 
• strawberry/mango smoothies
• peanut butter
• melba toast
• my friends
• my nieces, my nephew and their families
• that they are happy, healthy and successful
• the smell of white sage
• lavender
• allspice
• Netflix
• my mattress
• the boom box by my bed
• a truckload of money (big bills)
• $5,000/week for life from PCH or a million a year or...
• winning lottery numbers
• a paid off mortgage
• zero balance on my credit cards
• lower interest rates
• more flowers/landscaping in the back yard
• a party with those I love on my 65th birthday in July
• company/companionship
• more paying reiki clients
• a whistling vessel gathering or two or three
• a sun room on the back of the house
• a new (Dutch) front door
• freshly painted living and bedroom walls
• new curtains
• finding a safe, affordable way to hook the dryer up
• Nintendo
• blinds for the front window
• a reading and healing with Nancy DuTertre
• seeing the red list turn to black
• reiki
• angels
• miracles
• Dennis Puffett
• Healing with the Masters
• President Obama
• coconut oil
• Sam-e
• Omega-3
• IP-6
• Vitamin D-3
• the ability to read and write
• the ability to type
• the colors of the rainbow
• beauty
• poetry
• words
• inspiration
• ideas
• my reiki bears
• the Tapping for $50,0000 video
• resilience
• determination
• possibilities
• hope
• love
• laughter
• life

May the Day Come 

When There Are No Dead Soldiers for Us to Mourn