<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(9, 17, 43); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Three Gratitudes</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(30, 33, 36); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Every night before I go to sleep<br>
I say out loud<br>
Three things that I’m grateful for,<br>
All the significant, insignificant<br>
Extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(30, 33, 36); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">It’s a small practice and humble,<br>
And yet, I find I sleep better<br>
Holding what lightens and softens my life<br>
Ever so briefly at the end of the day.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(30, 33, 36); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Sunlight, and blueberries,<br>
Good dogs and wool socks,<br>
A fine rain,<br>
A good friend,<br>
Fresh basil and wild phlox,<br>
My father’s good health,<br>
My daughter’s new job,<br>
The song that always makes me cry,<br>
Always at the same part,<br>
No matter how many times I hear it.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(30, 33, 36); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Decent coffee at the airport,<br>
And your quiet breathing,<br>
The stories you told me,<br>
The frost patterns on the windows,<br>
English horns and banjos,<br>
Wood Thrush and June bugs,<br>
The smooth glassy calm of the morning pond,<br>
An old coat,<br>
A new poem,<br>
My library card,<br>
And that my car keeps running<br>
Despite all the miles.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(30, 33, 36); font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">And after three things,<br>
More often than not,<br>
I get on a roll and I just keep on going,<br>
I keep naming and listing,<br>
Until I lie grinning,<br>
Blankets pulled up to my chin,<br>
Awash with wonder<br>
At the sweetness of it all.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Carrie Newcomer</span></div></div></body></html>