Giving Thanks

Thank you for my daughter’s laughter she reminds me there is joy to be found everywhere thank you for arms that embrace life’s yearning to connect thank you for dreams the ones we follow and the ones we dance with Thank you for music the kind that cracks you open then puts you back together again thank you for the ink of our memories so that we may write our own beauty thank you for the sky a window wide open calling you in thank you for the ocean its vastness humbling waves that whisper let go… let go… thank you for the wind that partners with the trees for a soulful ballet thank you for the rain washing away the dust and tampering our fires thank you for springs vibrant bloom a canopy of magic and renewal thank you for summers swell thick sweet honey humming with heat thank you for autumns release unfurling itself against a palette of color thank you for winters deep sleep and the stillness of snow thank you for all the darkness the despair the fear and the losses for without them all of this would not be so achingly beautiful