|
 |
|
|
Gratitude
I live in a big, noisy house. This morning, I was shaken from my sleep by the morning activity coming from the upper floor. That's where my niece, her husband and three boys live. I have an apartment down on the lower level. The baby, who is 13 months, is crawling all over the place, and the sound of his little hands and knees was loud enough to wake me. Plus, it sounded like he had something plastic in one of his hands and it hit the floor as his hands landed on the bare wood. There were voices, and banging, and the older two running from family room to bedroom. It was a real symphony of family sounds. And as I lay there, my blanket up to my nose and feeling all toasty, I felt so grateful for the comfort of those sounds above me, waking me from my dream state and calling me. I guess some people would find that kind of sound annoying that early in the morning. But I just love the feeling of family, and the sounds that go with it. I babysat for Brady, the baby, last week. I like to bring him to the computer and play his little videos from the Noggin website - he loves Moose A. Moose and Zee. There are a bunch of one minute videos, little cartoons and songs, and he'll sit through a half hour of those things with his eyes glued to the screen! After we exhausted them all, I decided to look for some Sesame Street videos for him on YouTube. I came across one I used to see on the show when my oldest nephew was just his age. I put the video up on my profile page, because I love what the song is saying, and what I feel when I hear it. It's about bananas. Yeah, the fruit. Bananas grow in bunches. You never see one banana growing on a banana tree by itself. Bananas need friends and neighbors and family to grow, and that touched something in me all those years ago, and it still does today. Where would we be without our connections in this life? Family of course, but the extended family, our friends, our neighbors, community and the world. How interwoven we all are, even though we don't even realize it. Just like they say, the flapping of a butterfly's wings in some remote African jungle can affect the weather we have here. And so can our own vibes have such a profound effect on people we may never even meet. And what about this internet community? How vital are the friends and contacts we make here? As I was online chatting to one of the friends I made through an email list for a rock band I subscribed to almost ten years ago, I realized how precious these friends, these souls are that I've been blessed to "meet" through an electronic device sitting on my desk! Good friends, friends who mean something to me and vice versa. People who are there for each other. Who love to chat and share and hang out. Who want to meet you, talk to you, call you on your birthday, send you music CDs in the mail because they love the new band they found. I know for a fact, there are several friends I can go to with almost any problem. And they know they can come here and I'll listen. In some ways, I feel I know these people online better than I know the ones I've met face to face before computers. Some have even turned into face-to-face friends! But I think you can meet on a soul basis and know a person's essence much faster online. Sometimes. There are no barriers, no prejudices (his shoes look old - she has buck teeth - wow, I didn't know they drove THAT kind of car) to color your opinion. No one upmanship, no leverage you can use to make yourself feel superior. I think you can really get to know someone this way on a deeper level. I'm veering off course here, but online friends mean a whole lot to me. The whole point to this is, I'm grateful for the connections. I'm grateful for the family I have. My mom came to live with me last year after my father passed. And I inherited my niece's dog after my own sweet Emma passed four days after her 17th birthday last year. Our house is full, noisy, and sometimes confusing. And messy. And I may aggravate them all sometimes. They may aggravate me. But I'm grateful to have them and feel blessed knowing I'm not only connected to them, but to everyone. We're all made up of the same stuff, and the same thread has woven us all together in a magical, wonderful pattern on the tapestry of our Universe. So today, I'm gratitudin'. |
|
 |
|
No reactions yet.
Please login or sign up to rate this intel.
Please login or sign up to add a comment.
The copyright for this content entitled "Gratitude" has been specified by the contributor as:
Public Domain
The copyright for this content has been relinquished by the author. The content may be used freely by anyone.
|
|
|
This intel was contributed by ebnyeyz
|
May, 2012
2008
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2009
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2010
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2011
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2012
January, February, March, April, May
|
|
Not a member yet?
Qondio is a powerful network for making it online. If you have a website to
promote, we can help.
Sign up and get in on the action.
|
|
Welcome to Qondio! Discover the awesome power this network can deliver by going to our About page. Or you could skip straight to the Sign Up form.
|
|
