Thankful for.....TODAY

On Facebook I have noticed a trend of people counting down toward Thanksgiving and listing why they are thankful.  What a great idea, I often don't do that enough.  So....even though it is November 5th and I tend to have a problem with blogging in any sort of regular manner, I decided to attempt a thankfulness log.

I am thankful for today.  TODAY, not tomorrow and all that it holds including the fact that the day will be incredibly long.  Not yesterday.  TODAY.  Learning to appreciate living in the moment, in the now.  Not anticipating what is to come and missing the now.  Not lamenting over the past and missing the now.  NOW.  This moment.  Today.  

.....note to self, it's not enough to proclaim this, you must actually practice it.......

Pooh Bear is so wise.....

"Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things that get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you." Pooh Bear from The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne 

A few of my favorite quotes.......

‘the characteristic that most differentiates librarians from all the other occupational groups I worked with is a very weird and shockingly offbeat sense of humor. Librarians are very funny in some dark, devious and totally unexpected ways’ — Will Manley

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. – Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones (who know he had it in him or that he had a secret longing to be a librarian)

Your lack of planning is not my emergency.

"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group.  They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?"

— Michael Francis Moore