Gratitude is not a given. Not for anyone and especially not for those living with late stage cancer. Gratitude is a practice. A way of looking at the world. Dan recently read a book that asked what do you count each day? Challenges or blessings? We are choosing to count blessings as even with cancer in our lives we have so much for which we are grateful, including:
- The New York Times Spelling Bee
- Pickleball
- Six wonderful nieces and nephews (and one more on the way!)
- Vaccines
- Our remarkable and remarkably present friends
- Good wine
- The Inspector Gamache mystery series (thanks Kate!)
- Antidepressants
- Renewed travel
- Morning coffee
- Grassroots Solutions evolution
- Support for caregivers
- Walks
- Those fighting for racial and social justice
- Doc the Basset Hound
- Gin rummy and cribbage
- Good health care
- Our Sether
- Peloton (especially Ally Love, Emma Lovewell and Andy Speer)
- Cassie parents and Dan’s stepmom
- Premade Thanksgiving dinner from Kowalski’s
- The latest season of Succession
- Winona
- A new therapist
- Tennis
- President Biden
- Our siblings
- Minimal cancer progression
- Enduring love
- And most of all this Thanksgiving season, being able to be TOGETHER with our family and friends
Happy Thanksgiving.
Love, Cassie and Dan
What an interesting list!