Daily Thanks

Today I am thankful for you.

Daily Thanks

Today I am thankful for sisterhood. I am often reminded what a rare and precious gift I have in my dance family. Each is truly a unique and amazing woman, with enviable beauty and strength, inside and out. I love to dance with them, but I also love to simply be among them, talk, and laugh. They are a blessing to my heart and I love them each so dearly.

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Today I am thankful for computers. My computer is not only a tool for communication and creativity, it is a conduit to information and greater understanding of the world outside my front door, and far beyond my front door, via the internet. I love learning new things I can do with it, especially when it involves Photoshop, Illustrator, iMovie/Final Cut, or HTML/CSS/PHP; with which any small project can keep me entertained literally for days with just the sheer volume of amazing and exciting new things to absorb and experiment with.

(Hey, did you see my Programs for Dancers post earlier this year? If you are thankful for your computer, too, maybe you'd be interested in seeing some of my highlights! :)

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Today I am thankful for my students. They have no idea how proud I am of them every second (I can say it every day, but they can't know how deeply in my heart I mean it!), and how honored I am to help guide them on their dance journey. I know "dance journey" sounds like a lot of hippie-hooey to those who aren't into dance, but I can tell you, it is a very accurate visual for what it means to be moving through this world with dance as one of your vehicles of motion. Thanks to all of you who have put your trust in me as your teacher and mentor, be it in weekly classes, in workshops, or even in reading this blog. It means the world to me to share in this with you all every day.

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Today I am thankful for the rain. Yes, rain, even you I am thankful for. They grey days can sometimes get me down, but at the same time, I am grateful for the water that makes things so beautifully green in my city. And I adore the sights, sounds, and smells of the rain! Oh yes, especially that crisp, clean smell. I love the sound of heavy rain pelting its rugged pitter-pat on the roof; and a storm...! Don't even get me started, when the thunder and lightning arrive. It's rare enough around here that I become a giddy kid, lighting candles and sitting by the window watching in fascination. Yes, rain, we have a love/hate. Today, I express my thanks for you.

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Today I am thankful for my mind. Another thing we take for granted: our ability to process information, to parse data, to analyze details, to visualize, to question, to imagine. I feel like I got lucky, and got the best of both my parents: my mother's powerfully creative and artistic right brain, and my father's extraordinary logical and analytical left brain. I am not as strong as either of them in these areas, but instead have a respectable balance between them, which I am proud of, and feel blessed to be a combination of their strengths.

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Today I am thankful for friends who make me laugh on a grumpy day. Friends who listen, and who tell great stories. Who care about what's going on in your life, and are open about their own experiences. Friends who make you go home with a smile and say "Today was a good day!" when you were pretty sure a distinctly opposite report would have been delivered without their presence.

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Today I am thankful for variety. I live in a city (and in a country) that has such variety available to us--in art, in cuisine, in fashion, in entertainment, you name it! There truly is something for everyone. I am so grateful for the simple pleasure of choice.

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Today I am thankful for a career that allows me so much freedom and opportunity to be creative in my life. Sometimes I feel I squander the time I am given, but I am always humbly grateful for the charmed life I have been given through dance, and and of course my loving husband who supports me in my endeavors.

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Today I am thankful for sunshine! The way I bounce out of bed on a sunny day, ready to take on the world...no doubt I am solar powered! And today it makes the fall leaves just sparkle. Soooo beautiful!

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Today I am thankful for music. I have music playing most of the time in my world, whether I am home working on computer tasks, or at work (class or performing) dancing to it. I am grateful I have two ears to hear it with, and a mind and heart which appreciates it on so many levels. It can pick me up and drive me forward, help me relax, set the mood for a party with friends, or be the reason for the party (Rock Band!).

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Today I am thankful for quiet mornings, drinking tea and reading, with warm puppies underfoot.

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Today I am grateful for things we largely take for granted, like running water, electricity, food and warm shelter. It is ridiculously easy to forget what a large population of our world does not enjoy these luxuries, and I am grateful to live as I do with my most basic needs met.

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Today I am thankful for the smell of incense and candles in my house. I feel restful when those sights and smells intermingle. Even better when I come home from teaching, and Chris has pre-lit both in the living room to welcome me home, and cracked the front door a little so I can smell it when I come up the walk.

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Today I am thankful for my physical therapists, who care about me, encourage me, and leave me sore in all the right places on my road to improving my body's health and awareness.

A month of thankfulness

Okay, late on the stick by 10 days, but a Facebook meme is going around that I really like, and would like to do here on my blog. Would you like to join me? Then blog, Tweet, Facebook, LiveJournal, or however!

"Every day this month until Thanksgiving, think of one thing that you are thankful for and post it as your status. "Today I am thankful for..." The longer you do it, the harder it gets! Now if you think you can do it then repost this message as your status to invite others to take the challenge, then post what YOU are thankful for today.

Kicking it off:
Today I am grateful for my husband. I love our relationship of communication, trust, and laughter. I have never felt so safe, and so positively motivated to be a better person in my life. He's worthy.