Gratitude Practice 2017 Day #21: Women

Grateful for the strong, courageous, kind women in my life. Grateful for the women who serve, stand up for and strength all who cross their path. Grateful for the women who both work and wonder, praise and persist, nurture and nudge, care and create. Grateful for those women who are equally as faithful as they are fierce as they love their people. Grateful for women whose unquenchable desire to learn and lead and leverage and level the playing field so all get a fair shake. Grateful for those who read and research and respond and then help us reach and resonate in new ways. Grateful for those women who wonder and wander and write and attempt what seems impossible knowing failing is as much a teacher as flying. Grateful for mom's, birthmom's and bonus mom's, auntie's and authors, mentors and mediators, friends and founders, sisters and sisters-in-law and sages. I am blessed beyond belief by all of the women in my life….so too many to name individually….who have generously loved me from one year to the next.

“Ruth” by my favorite local artist Brian Kershisnik