Lessons in Gratitude Day 82

It’s a real blessing to be able to say that my siblings (and their partners and children) are some of the finest people I know. As I wrote last night, each possesses their own unique gifts and talents. One thing they have in common is that each of them are caring, loving people. The past few days I’ve felt supported and cared for in exceptional ways. It has been wonderful connecting with family–it has been a real salve to the soul.

Tomorrow (today for some of you) I will be back on a plane headed back to Cali. I should get home just in time to take Jared to work and then take a stroll around the park if I feel like it. Not sure I’ll feel up to it, but we shall see. I hope I’m not too tired on the plane to begin debriefing the experiences of the past 24 hours–all the conversations I’ve had with so many people and the impressions I’ve had from what was said and what was not said. All interesting stuff.

So simple gratitude: I am writing my blog at the usual time when I’m at home; however I’m not at home and it’s not 9 o’clock, it’s midnight and I’ve been up since 6 a.m. I am grateful to have been here and will be grateful to get on the plane headed home. It wasn’t long enough time here with the family, but for the other purpose for my visit, it was plenty long enough. Now to go home and sort things out. Thanks to all who send good energy and prayers. We got through phase one, will still be in need of prayers for phase 2. I’ll keep you posted.

I hope to return to a more regular blog tomorrow or perhaps Wednesday. These past few days have been a bit out of the ordinary. I had  a really witty idea for how I was going to end this blog tonight, but I’m afraid I’ve forgotten it. So let me end with a favorite quote:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

With any luck I will be able to live not just the questions that have been raised over the past couple of days but before too long begin to live into the answer. Until then I’ll continue to operate from a place of sincere gratitude for the journey I am on right this moment. It’s all good.