Gratitude Rocks

So I'm just stepping back a minute to express some general gratitude to those folks who route for me.

to those paths that opened up sometimes out of nowhere by the graces of the opening universe.

to those trails that closed down, got rough and disappeared and something somehow got me through.

to the people who let me hop on their backs and crossed rivers.

those misfortunes that turned upside down and gave me much fortune,

many thanks to the possibities that have become endless, the courageous stories and events I've witnessed and triumphs that made confidence a way of life despite the over-analyzing tendencies that if allowed to prosper would dominate the outposts in the mind.

gratitude for the opportunites that have risen and been taken, and those that are currently lightly rapping upon my chamber door.

I thank perspecitive I thank empathy I thank the pains that bring understanding I thank the moments in the other shoe, I thank the days when I don't believe the grass is greener caught up with the comparisons of human natures own way of saying "you never going to be happy"

thanks to those quiet moments of content that leave me be to see inside, to spread the wealth of knowlegde of self and affirm unconscious suspicions that those once confirmed fears are occasionaly the guideposts the hidden aspirations and wills of the unwilling.

thanks to contradictory impulses, thanks to contained fires that when stoked lead to decisive actions making life certainly worth living.

thanks for the written word

and thanks for music that makes the soundtrack of the daily grind and the daily overexposed and the daily joys the small behaviors the insignificant moments that make up the true mosaic of life weaving into us the fabric that we can leave by and thanks to when I'm really keenly aware to those seemingly insignificant moments and discovering the secret within each and everyone...

thanks