My family and I must remember to be thankful. With so many people losing their jobs, losing their homes, living without health insurance, not having enough to eat, we have to remember that we have it much better than many, many families. M and I both have jobs, money is not an issue, we’re all healthy and we have health insurance, our house is paid for, we have almost an acre to grow food on — damn we’ve got it good.
And yet it’s so easy to forget all that and think about nothing but what you don’t have. Right now, I’m sitting on a couch typing on a tiny little laptop, wirelessly connected to the Internet, drinking a cup of echinacea tea with honey a few feet from a hot woodstove. I’ve eaten all the food I care to. M and the boys are out, and it’s very quiet and peaceful. Damn, what the hell else could you want?
Sometimes all I have to do is sit down in a quiet place, calm my mind, and consider what I have, to realize that I don’t need anything else. It’s when my mind is frenzied and I’m trying to beat some deadline at work and my head is filled with the endless list of household tasks to perform that I start thinking there must be a better way or that I can earn or shop myself to happiness.
But I can’t. I have everything I need to be happy, I just need to stop and be happy.
Ending and Beginning 
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