Today I am grateful for the people working hard to make decisions to keep us safe everyday. I am grateful for the teachers and leaders in our public schools. I am grateful for the people who work in restaurants and bring us food. I am grateful for the earth that nourishes and provides that food for us in the soil without the need to kill animals to help us have a healthy diet. And I am grateful for whoever invented the deck of cards. Such a simple yet powerful game.

Last night I dreamed I started a little restaurant, and Gwyneth Paltrow did all of the cooking, serving, and cleaning up. She and some other movie star friends were not too happy with me, I could hear them talking on the way out, and yet I couldn't hear what they said exactly, so I had no idea why. I was busy speaking to some other people about possibly expanding the animal hospital to a new location, and then later, speaking to some other restaurant owners about their experiences and how they might help me.

During the dream, I felt like everything was happening to me, and that I didn't have much control. I woke up today still feeling a little bit like that.

However, I am grateful to be awake, and realize I do have control over my life, and so do you.

I do a lot of encouraging to you, to be kind to yourself, to look in the mirror, to say something nice to yourself, yet, honestly, I do very little of that myself. I forget. I know it's important. I try to be there for you. I do spend time manifesting my future. With a barn I can share with you, and children, and veteran's, and families, and more rescued animals. I forget though to say nice things to myself, that I am doing ok, that I am right where I am supposed to be.

Yet that is the joy and journey of life, and why I woke up today, and why you woke up today. To give us another chance to try again. To be kind to someone. To share an intimate moment with family. To marvel at an animal, even one you can't touch that is living it's best life out in this murderous wind. It doesn't have a house or a barn, and you probably couldn't do what it does and survive, and THAT is something we should all marvel at, and be humbled by, every single day.

​Wishing you the best Thursday of your life, you Animal Loving Angel, be well, and kind to one another (and will you ask Gwyneth what I did when you get a chance? It really bothers me when I don't know what I did to upset somebody!).🤣

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