What are you grateful for?

read the subject line of an email from the head of social at our cycling studio. Right below it, an update from Amazon.

Delay in shipping your Amazon.com order of Bounty Paper Towels.

Vanilla almond butter, I started to respond out of appreciation for the spoonful of sugar that replaced breakfast 5/7 days while juggling all of the things this year.

Real talk: what has given you gratitude through the struggles of 2020? And what will keep you moving forward through the struggles ahead?

Struggles and constraints forced us all inward in search of something more, strengthening and softening, closing us off and opening us up. I’m thankful for the grit and grace this year has given me, the newfound awareness of and appreciation for my struggles, my failures, and my blackness and the daily invitation it’s brought to be a better me.

I’m so happy to be aliiiiiiiiive

sang 5.5yo, sitting down to eat a frozen waffle.

Same.

I thought. A year that’s changed life for all of us challenges us to ask a bigger question to answer the question about gratitude and perseverance: what does it mean to live?

Life is everywhere, life is in us ourselves, not outside. There will be people by my side, and to be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task. - Dostoevsky

I see you, I love you, I’m grateful for you,