Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. – Zig Ziglar

It’s 12 : 12 PM on day 1972 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read read 1 Thessalonians 5, have breakfast  learn one new thing – Fish need oxygen too, but since they don t have lungs, they take oxygen from the water in which they live. The oxygen in the water available to fish is called dissolved oxygen (oxygen that is dissolved in the water). Fish use gills to take oxygen from water just as we use our lungs to take oxygen from the air.–  and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign – yesterday Anatoli donated $15 and today Arunchachen donated $25 (thanks SO MUCH Anatoli and Arunchachen your support means a lot 🙂  )  which brings my total raised to $2 057  only $4 193 more to raise by 10 Jan 2017  (SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far   ).

Last night sitting around the dinner table I asked my mother and fifteen-year-old brother to name five things they were grateful for my brother looked at me like I was a total nutjob and asked why I believe that all our lives have energies and that the simplest way to change your life energy from negative to positive is to express gratitude so I hope all of you will take a moment daily to think about at least five things that you’re grateful for (I will ask my family to name the five things they are grateful for every night and hopefully my brother will one day actually think about it and say something other than why [a girl can dream, right? 🙂 ] ).