“Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” – Gertrude Stein

It’s 12: 21 PM on day 2062 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read John 3, have breakfast, learn one new thing – Only two kinds of egg-laying mammals are left on the planet today—the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater. These odd “monotremes” once dominated Australia, until their pouch-bearing cousins, the marsupials, invaded the land down under 71 million to 54 million years ago and swept them away. –  and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign  – raised $5 724 only $526 more to raise before Jan 10 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far 🙂).

Today I realized although my profuse expression of appreciation may make some people uncomfortable I still need to do it because people are not mind and heart readers it’s impossible for them to know what I’m thinking and feeling unless I show them and tell them.