Daily Gratitude List 7.14.22
I’m grateful it’s not as hot this morning. I’m grateful for the chats when my daughter gets home from work. I’m grateful to get to write that sentence. I’m grateful for an excellent cup of coffee and a really soft breeze on the balcony. I’m grateful to see how fear and anger steered me way off the course and grateful to recognize that the answer to anger is understanding the fear. I’m grateful to be sober today.
First things first. There is a new episode of Breakfast with an Alcoholic coming this weekend, so you really need to listen to my breakfast with Jamee soon:
One of the things I love about NYC is the subway. Yes, you heard me right. Like everything with me, the seeds were planted young. I was a 5th grader when I convinced my parents that I should be allowed to take the bus to go downtown.1 It gave me such a sense of freedom and independence. Fast forward a lot of years and I arrive in the great city of New York and the best way to explore it is by taking the subway. I also love trains, but the idea of getting on a train and just popping up in another part of the City, ready to explore, is pretty cool. Also, it’s only $2.75.2
Anyway, you might ask why are we talking about my weird affection for the subway and it’s because I saw this yesterday:3
The image of a a young girl folding origami cranes that “clutter the house” made me laugh, but I loved this:
My daughter makes and makes them, having heard the old story: What we create may save us4
I think that’s very true.
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Downtown Iowa City, that is.
If you wanted to get the enthusiasm really gushing you would ask me about my views on taking the Ferry. But it feels like enough mass transit talk for today, okay with you?
I love the ads on the subway, from “mind your cannabis smoke” to the ad for exciting jobs with the Norfolk, VA police department right above an ad that says “Know your new parole rights!”
Here’s the link to MTA’s “Poetry in Motion” website: "Cranes in August" Ask me again why I love living in New York.
"What we create may save us." The art I make with my hands is a hopeful act of both faith and gratitude.
Like you I am grateful every day to be sober! Without that I wouldn't have much else to be grateful for, or a living brain to be grateful with.
I am grateful that I don't live in New York City but I'm also grateful that I have lived in the Twin Cities Phoenix and Des Moines but wound up in Pierre South Dakota.
And I'm grateful that wherever I go there will always be a place where everybody knows my last name.
"Andiamanalcoholic"