throngs of gifts

I am blessed.

I mean, I know we're all blessed, and there are days we choose to see it and days we choose not to, and today I chose to see my blessings, and boy, am I drowning in them.

First, there's my friend who called me last night. She was very clear with what she needed:

"Kate, I just need to cry. I don't need advice, and I might need you to ask me questions that will help me continue to cry. Can you do that?"

Yeah, I can do that.

And she cried and cried and cried, releasing tons of angst back into the universe, freeing herself from pain and showing me a lovely, whole, strong, delicate, beautful, gorgeous, passionate woman.

Dip me in chocolate, and I'm in heaven.

Then, today, one of the students in my powerpoint class sent me an email with a presentation in it, showing me everything she had learned in my class. My favorite slide?

I don't care that it looks like it was done by and 8 year old. I LOVE IT.

And lastly, I share this gift with you. It's the carrot I couldn't find last week because it was hiding under my dry cleaning:
And, at the risk of sounding wikkid god and jesusy, but without that intent at all,

may you be blessed today, too.