Giving Thanks

Thanks for my three wonderful children: the Star, the Dreamer, and My Good Right Hand.

Thanks for my loving (and much loved) sisters, nieces and nephews.

Thanks for sweet Cookie, who passed away last week.

Thanks for dear Jackie, and frail Leon who calls out in the night to friends on the Other Side.

And thanks for all my loved ones and friends Over There, whom I hope to meet again.

Thank you for the food we eat,

Thank you for the friends we meet,

Thank you for the birds that sing,

Thank you Lord for everything.