Gratitude List: Oranges, Etc

I used to post gratitude lists fairly regularly, along with other lists. That’s supposed to be what blogs are for: thoughts too long for Facebook, but too short or too rough for more polished forums. I’ve been in one of my shy-about-blogging phases, so here’s something to break the ice.

Great Mother, thank you for:

• Oranges
• Clean water
• My job
• Going home from my job
• Deborah, Eugenia, Kelly, Wandajune, and other friends
• Having $1.50 in change so I can buy a soda from the vending machine
• The guys I sit with in the company cafeteria
• The window next to my cubicle (I waited eight years for that!)
• Daily coincidences that show me the Universe is on my side
• Ball point pens
• Clean underwear
• Modern pharmaceuticals
• Good healthcare
• Barbara Helfgott Hyett’s workshop
• Poet friends near and far
• Jellyfish Magazine
• Oddball Magazine
• The Queer Open Mic at Fazenda in Jamaica Plain
• The people coming to my poetry workshop this Thursday
• The Boston Dyke March
• Sweet, sweet sleep
• My comfy bed