because oprah said so.

our stories, interesting. the fact that we can write new ones when the old ones get stagnant, fascinating. 

there is something that happens to me when i get around my mom...i start to really trust myself. i noticed this when she came to visit in peru and when i went to visit her in china. it feels so good to not question so much, to be so present, to feel grown up and not take things personally. i am grateful for this.

i am grateful for the wonderful meeting with sandra from life with cancer and the possibility of doing a phototherapy program this summer for people living with cancer. i have been praying for service and this has come up so beautifully.

i am grateful for...i don't know, springtime i suppose, and change, and coming home to a house of people.

i am grateful for sitting with emotions on the metro and letting myself feel the intricacies of loving someone but knowing you can never possess them or feeling angry at someone for doing something i have done.

i am grateful for food in a time when so many people this world are worrying about food. i feel bad being grateful when there is lack, for celebrating abundance when people are starving, but nothing starts from guilt, i know this.  i know it because oprah told me.