The daily slog

Oh why is it so hard to be grateful and easy to be grumpy? Easy to feel sorry for yourself and hard to feel thankful? When you work in a job where you're supposed to be cynical, it's easy to be an ass and make excuses for why you have to be that way. And it's convenient to complain all the time. I do a good job of that. For extra measure, I worry all the time, too.

Here's to a renewed effort toward gratitude. I'm grateful that so far my basement is dry despite the flooding that seems to be hitting everywhere this summer. Also, for a roof over my head, for a job that pays the bills and food in the kitchen. That's the laziest gratitude list I've ever written since being grateful for life's necessities is not putting any thought into this exercise at all. But here I'll start ... some days I'm more of a work in progress than others.