Thank you, Creator, that you created pigs and elephants with long snouts, that you shredded leaves and hearts, that you gave beets their sweetness. Thank you for nightingales and bedbugs. That girls have breasts, that fish breathe air, that we have lightning and cherries. That you commanded us to multiply in most eccentric ways, that you gave thought to stones, seas, and people.
~ Anna Kamienska, from A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook
Photo: © Patrick Gonzalès )via Newthom)
Live & Learn 
And may the endless list of thank you reach your ears…
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Smiling. The Bell is ringing Mimi.
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❤
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Yes…me too.
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Add my voice to the chorus!!
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Thank you Dave for posting this reminder to be grateful for the unexpected, the overlooked and the details in our lives 💕
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Yes Val. It’s all those little things.
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I did smile at bedbugs❣️
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Does sound better than lice.
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By a smidge, maybe…
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Laughing.
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A gratitude list. I wonder how mine would read ?
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I have time to wait, to read about it in your next post. Get after it.
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Thank you for the reminder, David. ♥♥
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Love this…
He commanded us? I haven’t been doing it all this time because he commanded us. 😉
Nightingales are beautiful and sing an intoxicating song.
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Not sure I’ve heard a nightingale sing, in its habitat…
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Wow, I had no idea a Nightgale was “this” beautiful! 🙂 Thanks for sharing Sawsan.
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Mine doesn’t include bedbugs, but otherwise similar.
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Yes, perhaps a pillow feather or two, but bedbugs, no.
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thank you…..
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The photo so fitting,,,it is if the bird is waiting for the gates of Heaven to open…and he has a front row perch…
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Smiling. Yes. I can see that.
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love it, makes me speechless with appreciation, happiness, awe….
(instead of doing what I should, I have one eye and both ears on the other screen with Alma on the stage of the musical world…)
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Smiling…and there’s nothing wrong with that…celebrate it all!
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