Gratitude Challenge--Day 1

1. Early this morning, I heard Canadian geese flying overhead.  I love their sound because it indicates change.  A new season is before us.  Holidays and family get-togethers to celebrate! 

2.  An OLLI class I'm taking is reading through The Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows--the story of the occupation of Guernsey Island by the Germans during World War II.   A great opportunity to understand a perspective of life that none of us have experienced.  

 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  

It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

                    -- Melody Beattie