Water...

 Grateful am I for ... Simple pleasures: morning coffee, feeding my goats, hugging my partner Friendships: on-line and in person, amazingly in the middle of a worldwide pandemic to boot Gravity: yep, keeps my feet on mother earth, maybe your's too? Water, Air, Earth, Fire: and all the scientific discoveries which have led us further than the bounds of our own finite understanding of elemental causes. Freedom: as limited as human freedom actually is, I can think of times in my life when I was less free than I am now. I can imagine things not being free.  Freedom at an existential level can be overwhelming if Fromm and Sartre got anything correct in their theories of human freedom. Maybe I should be more grateful for other things.  I am.  Just as I can also be grateful for the fact that I don't have to count all blessings to be blessed.  It's okay to forget here and there, even important things, and I'm super grateful I don't have to demand perfection of myself any lo