Two Days in the Heat Dome ... and Gratitude

For days I've followed the news of rain and more rain and flooding in the Northeast, especially Vermont. I didn't know what to do with all the emotions scrambled up with Florida's dumb as dirt curriculum decisions... 

Then Emma Rianne sent us an image of her dog Elle contemplating life under a rainbow.  And, true, the world settled into a more hopeful balance...something about rain and rainbows ...or dirt dumb and new shovels.

Then, I saw a sign at a cafe, and it moved me. Whomp!  That was a surprise; I don't care for signs telling me what to do.

Sign:     "Live, Laugh, Love!"
Me:       "More of your conversation would infect my brain."                        Apologies W.S. 

Here is what the cafe sign said:

Your job is the dream of someone unemployed.

Your house is the dream of someone homeless. 

Your smile is the dream of someone depressed.

Find something to be grateful for...

And so, I don't care how corny it is...I'm grateful for you, right now. You, reading this silly blog from Flagstaff AZ where it has started to rain. So, after days of dry, heat, and more dry cracked earth, I'm dang grateful for this rain.

I think I just did a full circle in some cosmic way. Love. 

PS:  Here is what Elle thinks of the Florida curriculum poop show...and dogs generally really dig poop, right? 


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