205.4 Gratitude

Last night we went over to Terry and Louise's for dinner, a delicious dinner featuring a wonderful tortellini, sausage, tomato soup.  Louise assured me she had cooked it a day earlier so she could remove all the fat from the sausage!  I relaxed and truly enjoyed it.  While we were talking, she asked how the zucchini appetizer had come out after all my blogging about it.  I love Louise!  She reads my blog faithfully and as you can see, nothing gets by her!  As I told her, it came out great and here's a picture to prove it.

(I know, it looks like a turtle, but it didn't taste like one:)  )

This morning I was listening to my favorites on the CD player and I found myself singing along with "Tis A Gift To Be Simple".  I turned to Jeff and said, "Isn't it great to be alive!"  I didn't mean rather than dead, but to be a part of this magnificent planet and all the beautiful, simple things to be enjoyed by being aware, present.  While carrying around those 42 pounds (I can't imagine carrying 42 pounds of anything, much less fat!) it was hard to be filled with this kind of gratitude.