Day #12 of the 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #12 of 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

Today's prompt is Name three living people in your life that you are grateful for.

(I changed it a little.)

1. My mother - who is my best friend, confident, and cheerleader.

2. My niece - who gives me hope and keeps me sane.

3. Jay - one of my bosses at work - who helps keep me centered and mindful

Here's a picture of one of these women, with her cats...of whom I'm also thankful.

Comments

[atpo_onm]

1. My sister. Eight years older than me, and my only sibling. The age difference was huge when I was a child-- I was still in elementary school when she graduated from high school, so while we got along, it was hard to relate to one another. Today, we understand one another extremely well. We have an enjoyable in-joke where we refer to each other as "My favorite sister" and "My favorite brother".

We certainly are.

2. Tom, my only current best friend who lives in the same town as me. We worked together at the audio store, he in the commercial division, me in the home. Our in-joke is that we refer to one another as "the brain-damaged technicians", a reference to the industry and its effects on those such as we.

3. My ex-boss at the audio store, who retired from it 12 years ago. Now in his mid-80's, I still see him occasionally. We worked together for several decades, and he always treated me with appreciation and respect, and not just for my technical abilities, but as a person. While technically an employee, he treated me like a partner.

[shadowkat]

All three sound wonderful. Sibling relationships kind of ebb and flow with time, or so I've discovered.

Wonderful to have a close friends so close by. And an appreciative boss is something to be grateful for, and quite rare.