Grateful

Iced tea and long phone conversations, dogs surrounding you snoring softly are the best gifts one can have. Reminiscing about childhood memories and people we have lost. It was healing to listen to laughter mixed with tears tangled with excited oh my god I remember that!

I think back to us as children and cannot even imagine my life would be the way that it has been. 

During the evening I ran today’s conversation back through my mind and softly smiled to myself.

Most people looking in would be heartbroken if they knew all the pages of my life and would feel pity for me, but as I replay the days of my life, I find myself focusing on the beauty and the love.

Today I am grateful for the love I have been blessed with, the people I have been given to love and even for those who taught me great lessons of heartache.