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PEACE AND JOY—ANOTHER THANK YOU THURSDAY

Some months ago I had this bright idea that every other Thursday would be “Thank You  Thursday.”  After all, I have a lot of people and things to be thankful for and without these people and  circumstances seeking peace and joy would be more difficult if not impossible.  I think I made it  through a whole two cycles of thanks before I forgot I had made this commitment or Iforgot it was Thursday.  Either way that has to end and it has to end today.  

Or maybe it needs to begin again today depending on how much latitude you are willing to grant.  So on this thankful Thursday where would I like to direct my gratitude?  

Thank  you to the ARTISTS

That seems pretty  vague and general—I know, however clarity is coming....read on...

I am grateful for  the thousands of times you have sat alone with the pencil in your hand, or the paint brush.  Thanks for the  millions of  times  you have looked for a specific kind of light shining in a unique way and lifted your camera only to throw away  hundreds of efforts to find the one that captured a moment in time.  Thanks to the musician who plays scale after scale after scale after scale until the movement of  your hands is connected  directly to the song in your soul.  Thank you to the poet who is dedicated to saying as much as possible in as few words as I could imagine.  Thank you for the courage to share both the perfect efforts and those you have to release before they diminish your sanity.  Thank you all for spending the  first hour of practice so that the last ten minutes of performance, the last paragraph I read, and the last photo set before me let me see something new outside myself or inside myself.  

In short, I want. To thank. Everyone who takes a on the task of  giving. Me a choice of meanings to  my moments—

MEANING TO MY MOMENTS

Thank you for each line and curve that you draw for me to see

Thank you for the needed nerve to share the sketch with me

Thank you   For the lingering chord that’s in concert with your voice

For the  sweetness or the sadness in the expressions of your choice

Thanks for keeping on when the efforts felt like drudging

When you knew folks without knowledge would feel free to be quite judging

Thanks each and every one of you who take on this daunting duty

To bring meaning to  the moments of peace and. Joy and beauty