I wanted to choose a category of how I feel at the moment, and there was not a category for Grateful.
There should be.

I am not sleeping much at night, my baby Salvador has 2 eye teeth coming in, his accompanying cold is a nasty one!
Babies need to be held the WHOLE time they are sick.
No one tells ya that one.

There, now I have told you.
They will NOT sleep while sick unless you hold them, not you, no....let me correct that MOM.
MOM has to hold them while sick, or they will not sleep.

I kind of love it...I am fully sleep deprived, but what are the chances that I will have a fourth baby? I dunno, not great. It is a LOT.
I am still breastfeeding this one too, greatest achievement of my life besides delivery without drugs
YAY!!! THE TRIUMPHS continue.
Anyway, enough of the tooting of my own horn.
Why am I so grateful right now?

For my comforts....the comforts and freedoms that we take for granted everyday.

The first thing I read on the news page this morning was the story of a woman who was accused of sorcery/witchcraft in New Guinea, and she was tied to a log and set ablaze this past weekend. Burned at the stake.

My beliefs, as conventional as they may seem to some here in the Western World would probably constitute a burning at the stake as well in some parts of the world today.

I had a pain go through my person (soul or body or both, not sure) when I read this article.
There is nothing I can really do about her fate.
I can wait for change, hope that the communication and progress we are seeing in this generation will influence even the most remote areas of the world, and convince people that each human is an individual with their own unique imprint on their world waiting to be cast.
We all have a force inside of us that is designed to electrify this life differently, add a different colour to the landscape of the world....it cannot be denied.

I will celebrate her efforts and her life today, by being grateful for my own freedoms.

Her life will not be wasted as the rest of us utilize every moment of our lives, never wasting our opportunities to express, or be grateful for our liberty.

My album is going well, the sights are set high, so thank you for your patience.
Help me with mine!
best
chantal k