1. MarceLo - thank you for your gentle presence, you inspire order and sweetness and love from all of us.
2. Nina - for your wide eyes and heart, your curiousity, respectfulness, and sense of jsutice. You inspire the best in me.
3. JoseLo, my favorite man in all the land, thank you for being such a great partner, and father.
4. My family, spread all over the globe.
5. My friends near and far who live and love in the most authentic ways.
6. For the lucky person who will end up with Mar y Selva - a paradise getaway.
7. For sleepovers and morning coffee.
8. For skype. I am amazed at technology.
9. My block. I love that I can't go a block without seeing people who smile, who also appreciate where we live as a place where good things happen and good people gather.
10. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church and espeically the Lafayette Inspirational Ensemble - they are performing Dec. 13th at 4pm and I can't wait.
11. Yoga - and all the talented teachers I have had over the years.
12. My clients, past and present. I am better for you.
13. My mother and mother in law who spent so much time this Fall in support of our new family of four.
14. Miriam Schwartzchild - a wonderful woman and midwife. May your days be blessed.
15. For kindergarten! Kori is the best.
16. Picnics and walks through Fort Greene park.
17. For creating space.
18. For how life can change and does, in an instant.
19. For Cristina and James! May your love be eternal.
20. For the birthday song from PJ, Carol, Johnny, Katie, and Stephanie.
21. For bringing my little brother home so I can squeeze him.
22. For my brother Xavier, who taught me to let things go. For drinking water and for doing the best you can.
23. Knitting with my girl.
24. Lighting a candle at mealtime.
25. My neti pot.
26. For all at Butter Beans!
27. Meghan and Jason - such good solid people and wonderful neighbors. I love all my neighbors!
28. The Park Slope Food Co-op - for looking out for all of us.
29. Sunflower seeds spouts at the Green market
30. So grateful for all the farmers that love our land and grow our food with love and consciousness of the effects our actions today, will have on our future.
31. Barack Obama - for showing up and doing the very best you can, for inspiring the best in people.
32. The staten Island ferry that brings J back to us at night.
33. The gargoyle and wind dial and moon I see out my bedroon window.
34. For visions, and vision boards.
35. Oma - you are an excellent person and beautiful knitter.
36. Maryellen, for your precision in timing and fabric.
37. For loved ones finding love.
38. Ivanda and Angela and Manu. You remind me of the many colors within a rainbow.
39. Languages - being bilingual and learning more.
40. Acupuncture and homeopathy haleluyah.
41. Rebekah and the making of her home.
42. Luisa Rishi Ezekiel and Uma - for your friendship and your love.
43. Christina, for always giving it to me straight.
44. For Ralph and his historical corner store.
45. For the many who came before, who set the stage, who taught us how.
46. For the peace that lives in our hearts, for her expression around the world.
47. Establishing roots, a home from which to grow.
48. Wilder Ray and your beautiful family. You showed me how my heart can grow.
49. Hope - your beautiful smile.
50. A healthy pregnancy and birth.
51. For breastfeeding and forhaving been breastfed.
52. Boots and skirts.
53. The borrowed drill.
54. Being able to fix things with my hands.
55. Zide and her yearly calendars, that I finally use.
56. Beans and grains.
57. Dinosaur kale and kobucha squash.
58. Masaru Emoto, my hero.
59. la gaita, el piano, the music in my home.
60. The guitar I can still learn to play.
61. Joan, her yummy food and generous spirit.
62. The ladies who brought me food every day for two weeks after Cello's birth, thank you for the experience of community.
63. Holly - for always being on the same page.
64. Wooden floors that shine.
65. Quinoa fish soup.
66. My bicycle and my Dad's new one.
67. The men who drive the big yellow school bus that takes Nina in the am and brings her home in the afternoon.
68. Ecuador in my heart.
69. For responsibility.
70. For netflix instant watch and my new laptop that organizes my pictures.
71. Christmas nostalgia in the streets.
72. THE magic swing
73. Tea in small porcelain cups with small friends.
74. Sweet potato pie and rainbow candles.
75. El gato encerrado.
76. The birds that circle on our walk to the bus in the am.
77. The history I feel in the streets in Fort Greene, history that demands the best of us today.
78. Wikipedia and google.com
79. The bowl of walnuts and nutcracker on our kitchen table.
80. Our kitchen table, wooden, loved and big enough for all of us.
81. Sharing keys with Heather and Tomer.
82. Shoshana - responsible for all the scooting mama's around.
83. Mail carriers all over the world. I love your job.
84. for my Olga Fisch rug.
85. Drawing with pencils and pen.
86. My toaster oven and Vita mix.
87. Standing on my own two feet, in an ever more sincere way.
88. For evolution.
89. for M's new stroller.
90. Lantern walks.
91. Gingerbread houses.
92. Simplicity.
93. Henna tattoos.
94. Uraba - faithful beautiful palm.
95. Dave Dyson
96. The forests and people who protect them.
97. Moments with my Love.
98. wool and thread and the time of carols.
99. I am grateful that it only gets better.
100. I am grateful for life is beautiful.
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