This week all the Lieberman-Smiths went back to school. There was some grumbling after being off a record seven months, but I am slowly adjusting. Despite some morning grumpiness I am incredibly thankful for having a great teaching job, and for my MANY new students. (I think my school doubled in size during my absence.) I found this gratitude list I wrote awhile back and thought I would share it with you. It's a nice way to think about the amazing things we have in our lives... and it's alphabetized.
I Am Thankful For:
A- Ace Granary bread, AIM Langugage Learning
B- Bubbie, the colour blue, backpacks, biking, books, Before Sunrise etc, bagel
brunches
C- my cottage, coffee, canoeing, chicken soup D- Dassa, dogs, drawing, duvets
E- Elephants, Ethan Hawke
F- Feminists, French
G- Galiano Island
H- my hair, hiking, Hebrew School, hand-me-downs
I - India, immigration
J- Jews, Jerusalem, Japan, John and James, Jeff
K- Kugel, Knaidle, Knish, Knishbroit, Kingston, Keatings
L- Liebermans, letters
M- Makaio, Montreal bagel, Marilyn Robinsons’s novels, Morgan, marzipan, matza balls, my sister Marcy
N- Nancy, novels, The New Yorker
O- Ottolenghi cookbooks, Ondaatje’s books, Orca Publishing
P- pianos, Pan Chancho, Poetry in the woods, Prince Edward Country
Q- the letter Q in Scrabble
R- Robbie (both of them), rooiboos tea
S- summer, French teaching guru Sylvia Duckworth, my physiotherapist
Stacey, my stand-up paddle board, socialized medicare, skiing, sushi,
swimming, scotch
T- TrekU- underwear
V- Volkswagons, Vancouver
W- my white writing couch, White Lady Cocktails
Y- yoga
Z- Zeydi
If you feel inspired to write your own gratitude list, send it my way.
~Leanne
