Thanksgiving Musings

I haven’t posted in a while because my wife and I were travelling and then, after we returned home, adopted a new puppy named Abby whose training and settling-in has happily occupied a lot of my time.

Since we are in the Thanksgiving season, I sat back to consider what people and things I am thankful for. In no particular order, they are:

~ The joy of loving and living each day with René, the love of my life

~My three children, all of whom have grown into caring, compassionate adults whose presence in the world is an endless source of good karma

~ The Dharma

~The joy of again having a dog in my life to love and the good fortune to have had Gatsby and Duffy to love for the time we shared life together.

~ All of my family and the fact there is no rancor among its members and that we all truly care for one another

~Awareness and the opportunities it provides for me to grow and view the world from the perspective of loving-kindness

~The opportunity to show compassion to all living beings in each moment

~Life and each moment of experience of which it is comprised

~Intelligence, Education, Experience and the capacity to develop wisdom by combining them

~The love and companionship of many friends, past and present

~The opportunity to have had a positive effect on the lives of the students whose life-paths crossed mine, however briefly

Namaste