Gratuities Appreciated

I love holidays, and using them as an excuse to celebrate what is at the heart of each one.  So every year for Thanksgiving I create a gratitude list of 101 things I am grateful for.  I've tried to keep overlap to a minimum so that I'm finding new things each year to be grateful for, but how can I not mention things like Muppets and Rainbows?...

1. That the right people always show up at the right time  2. Archery -- The muffled rattle of arrows on your back and the single, fluid motion to retrieve one from the quiver. The smooth, graceful curves of a bow and how they affect the balance of how it rides in your hand.  The tautness of the string and the subtle click as it snaps into the nock of an arrow, while the shaft softly clacks against the bow and slides into place.  The draw of the string back until your thumb brushes your jaw, as you look down the length of the arrow but don't so much see the target as feel it. The slightly strained pause of resististing the tension of the bow and string for but a moment longer as you inhale... Then release as all exertion is emptied into this spinning, feathered bolt, singing down the range until it comes to rest with a solid "Thkk!"  3. My family who grows dearer every day  4. That all the things I believed as a child have turned out to be true  5. 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' belly laughs  6. that first, glorious sip of chai in the morning  7. Smokey, sacred-pipe prayers that tingle in my mouth and linger in my beard and hair  8. Ever present Hope  9. Snow Leopards  10. 'Snow White' moments  11. Garden Burgers with swiss and mushrooms at... 12. ...the Roanoke Inn  13. The honor of being allowed to take part in the healing journey of others  14. The ever thinning veil between the worlds (and still being on this side of it)  15. Physical human touch  16. Kitty head-bonks  17. Naps  18. Skinny dipping  19. Deloreans  20. Faery ancestry  21. The wild greenwood  22. Tears  23. Grasshopper pie  24. That there's always another chance  25. Emmie and Mr Timmons -- my furry children  26. Silence  27. SJ Tucker  28. Peppermint patties  29. Mystery  30. The Great Mother  31. Deep soul connections  32. Rainbows  33. Gregorian chant  34. Elvis  35. Synchronicities  36. Humor  37. Stories, tales, sagas, legends, myths  38. Hawaiian pizza  39. George Herriman  40. Society for Creative Anachronism  41. Walt Whitman  42. Forty Two  43. Used book stores  44. The ecstatic throes of creativity  45. Oneness  46. The Holiday Season  47. Muppets  48. Water falls  49. Coyote howls  50. Disney  51. Intuition  52. Buck skin jackets with fringe  53. Deeply spiritual, mystical artists that remind me of things that can not be put into words  54. The ever-rising consciousness of Humanity  55. Nocturnal walks in lightly falling snow  56. Breakfast  57. Unbridled whimsy  58. The perfection of everything, even (especially) when I can't see it  59. Drums and rattles  60. Dalai Lama  61. Walks, and meditations, in sacred forests  62. Words -- Their origin, history, evolution, meaning, and relationship with other words  63. Blank books pregnant with possibilities  64. Glee  65. Kindness from strangers, and kindness to strangers  66. Kisses  67. Intimacy  68. That there are people drawn to do the things that I'm not drawn to do  69. Sacred space and ritual work  70. My path and vocation  71. Tao Te Ching  72. Movies on the big screen  73. Horchattas  74. That Love is all there is  75. Live music and live theater  76. Martha Stewart  77. Swash buckling  78. Gene Kelly  79. Wild rice  80. Imagination  81. Inspiration  82. Laughter  83. Dance  84. Moments of such utter beauty, perfection, and delight, when the clouds of fog and chaos clear, that there are no words for it and the only proper response is a smile  85. Ellen Degeneres  86. Comics  87. Art  88. Heliotrope  89. Transformative workshops  90. My goof-ball troope of spirit helpers  91. Happy endings  92. Wombats  93. Raptors  94. Blissful massages  95. The ability and joy of reading  96. Hugs that you melt into  97. Entire days of movie marathons while working on art projects  98. Serendipity  99. My patchwork Pantheon  100. Bruce Campbell  101. Enjoying things now that I couldn't even imagine as a child

...And I'm grateful to you for reading!  Thank you!