DAILHY GRATITUDE HUMANITY

 

I am grateful for those humans out there (and there are a lot of you)

who don’t make the daily news

whose kindness often goes unseen…

who are loving, compassionate and accepting

In a world where some have forgotten what being human means.

HUMANITY

 

May we be blessed to remember…

When deciding the kind of human we want to be

That the kindness in our heart

is the best part of our humanity

WE ARE ALL HUMAN

 

I am a human being which means 

(and you’ll find all anthropologist agreeing)

I share many of my characteristics…

with you…and every other human being.

This truth, in some, evoke both hatefulness and wrath…

How, as human being, we all share a similar evolutionary path.

Which means when you or I meet a fellow human being…

It’s not the whole human we first see…

because some of our human characteristics

are hidden…inside of you…inside of me.

For like you and all humans I am many colors…

I am black, brown, red and beige…I am the colors of the stars at night…

In fact because of our melanin, a natural pigment we all share,

the only color we are not…is white.

So when some humans try to divide us up…

when they decide to categorize and segregate us…

Not only are they doing a disservice to every human…

But to those who worked hard to create us.

And when we bomb and kill and abuse other human beings…

When we say they are not welcome…when we build a wall…

we are not only damaging those fellow humans…we’re doing damage to us all.

This basic information…can be found in our science books…

where the facts are waiting for us to understand them…

provided those humans…who are afraid of this truth

have not already banned them.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY

 

I am grateful for my friends and family

my children, my grandchildren,

My great-granddaughter…and my wife…

just a few of the many reasons I enjoy

every moment of my life

FIRST AND LAST

 

May we be blessed to enjoy every moment of our day…

before that moment’s passed…

Every moment as if was our first moment of the day

and as if it was our last.

EVERY FIRST TIME

 

They say there’s no better feeling in the world 

It’s the reason for so many love songs…so many rhymes

than when we have the pleasure of experience something…

for the very first time…

Think of all the feelings and emotions you unpack…

remembering the first time you said ‘I love you to someone’

and they said, ‘I love you back’.

The first time you saw a sunrise, the mountains, the ocean

a flower or a tree.

The first time you saw a dolphin, a bird, a butterfly, a bee..

 

The first time you heard your baby cry or laugh…

heard music soft…or loud.

The first time you smelled cookies in the oven.

The first time you touched a cloud.

They also say once you’ve experienced something for the first time…

no matter how or where or when…

You can never experience that same feeling…that same emotion

that same excitement…ever again.

But I beg to differ with whoever ‘they’ are…

because every new day offers a new how or where or when

to experience…the feeling, the emotion, the excitement

for the first time once again.

When you wake up and say I love you for the first time that day

to the person you adore…

you realize you’ve never said ‘I love you’ to her or him on this day before.

Every new day offers a new sunrise, a new look at that mountain

that ocean, that flower or that tree

that dolphin, that bird…that butterfly or bee…

Each new day offers a new first time to hear our baby cry or laugh…

to hear music soft or loud

a new first time to smell cookies in the oven…to reach up and touch a cloud.

Every day is meant to be a new day…it’s the way our creators designed them

filled with a host of first times out there…waiting for us to find them.

Which means as each new day arises…it’s up to us to find a way…

to discover and enjoy everything we can…for the first time…every day

LOVE. MAYA ANGELOU STYLE

 

These times when there is so much hatred in the world 

I am grateful for the words of Maya Angelou

which always help me cope:

Love recognizes no barriers.

It jumps hurdles, leaps fences,

penetrates walls to arrive at its destination

full of destination…

full of hope.