chirps of my visitng birds. The weather is phenomenal this morning and I have gratitude for this because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt there are not many more mornings this will be the scene as the Florida heat and humidity will set in and sit. These two birds that visit each morning and plunder around my kitchen are here and chirping away. I am grateful to provide them with water and a place to visit on their morning routine.
I am grateful for my supervisor calling to keep me in the loop as the executive leadership team ended their day and week researching and working through the mess created by my degrees. I am grateful for her kind and encouraging words that included me as being seen as family within our company 
and sharing how much the team does care about keeping me with them by making an action plan for next steps. I am grateful for the time spent during my interview yesterday as it was a 45 minute session of really good questions and the interest the panel had in my responses felt promising and full of confidence. I am grateful to have been able to have lunch with our intern from outpatient who now works at the residential center where the interview took place.
I appreciate and am grateful for my best friend being able to call last night as she was tired from a full day and still made time to for me.
I am grateful for my neighbor. She invited me over for an afternoon visit post interview. It is always nice to see her. I love her humor and support and her puppy!
I am grateful for my friend who works remotely as a scheduling agent for our medical services and was able to get me in for an earlier appointment than originally scheduled.
Even days that could so easily be drowned in pitty and self-sarrow there are reasons for and a place for gratitude. I say this to clients, or siad this to many. There is a mindshift and a soul shift when we truly are grateful. The storm does not seem so unbearable when we find, and I do mean dig some days, reasons to be grateful. What makes it all work is being sober. Grateful for sobriety, going to bed sober and waking up sober really strengthens us and assists our recovery.
I am grateful today for all of these and for Lil Man and Lucy. I wish I could better understand his disdain for Lucy. I wish I could get her past being frozen in her response state of giving up her intentions and following through with her plans. I will work on this with her.
Sober. Strong. Grateful.