GRATITUDE

BOOK OF GRATITUDE

This Book was started on Thanksgiving Day 2011. Then every day when I wake up, I visualize other vital people and things, feel their influence on my heart and spirit, and ritualistically write their names…..

NATURE

I am grateful for hummingbirds, rabbits, trees, clouds, rain, snow.

HEALTH

I am grateful for breathing easily, seeing, moving my body, crying, making love, sleeping well.

PEOPLE

I am grateful I lived in the same centuries with Bob Dylan,

Jackson Pollack, Walt Kelly, Federico Fellini, Maya Plisetskaya,

Akira Kurosawa, Doc Watson, Jorge Preloran, Ingmar Bergman,

Cesar Chavez, Morgan Freeman, Joan Baez, Edward Field,

James Tsun Jin-wei, Tu Duu-Chih, Pierre Rissient, Chen Bo-wen,

Ho Hsiao-hsien, Mississippi John Hurt, Satyajit Ray, Ernie Kovacs, 
Robert Kennedy, Bill Monroe, King Hu Tsing-Cheng, Willie Nelson,

Bill Watterson, e.e. cummings, Thich Nhat Hanh, François Truffaut, 
Charlotte Selver, Errol Morris, Rudolf Nureyev, Marcello Mastroiani, 
Phil Ochs, Chuck Jones, Meryl Streep, Edward Yang Teh-Chang,

Tim Buckley, Pablo Picasso, Jerry Lee Lewis, Harmon S. Ephon, Chyi Yu,

Orson Welles, Junior Wells, Garrison Keillor, Ju Ming, Yasmin Ahmad, 
Frank Sinatra, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Paar, Ira Glass, Tsai Chin, 
Walter Cronkite, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Isaac Stern, Robert Bresson,

Lin Hwai-min, Rolling Stones, Martin Naarmann, Fred Astaire, 

Nat King Cole, Chang Hung-yi, James Beeman, Ella Fitzgerald, Nino Rota,

Mercedes Sosa, Teresa Teng, Joan Stanley-Baker, Mary Martin, 
Leonard Cohen, Alexander King, Bennie Goodman, Cesaria Evora,

John Wayne, Michael Cohen, Jack Benny, Beatles, Paul Goodman,

Amália Rodrigues, Joe Frank, Holy Modal Rounders, Billy Wilder,

Chen Chi-kwan, Clarence Ashley, Greg Louganis, Trinh Cong Son, 
Leonard Bernstein, Amália Rodrigues, Joan Chiang Hsiu-chiung,
Feng Fei-Fei, Thai Chau, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lin Sheng-xiang,

Kim Sohee, Jean-Luc Godard, Bill Monroe, Buena Vista Social Club, 
Jerry Van Amerongen, Chen Kaige, Khanh Ly, Dag Hammarskjöld,

Tito Puente, Buster Keaton, Kimbo Hu Defu, Joan Miró, Le Thu,

Wang Toon, B.Traven, Paolo Conte, Reza Abdoh, Tsai Ming Liang,

Jim Kweskin, Stanley Kwan Ling-Pong, Chang Hue, Lino Brocka,

Saul Alinski, Miguel de Unamumo, Mae West, Wong Kar-Wei,

Charlotte Selver, Pai Hsien-yung, Franz Kline, Groucho Marx.

FRIENDS

I am grateful for my loving friends Peter, Ngoc, Fred, Toni, Lisa, Marilyn...   my therapists Patricia and Bill...my oldest friends Steve, Kathy, Bruce, KJ,  Ron, Patrick, Mabel, Chris, Anne, Robert, Nina, Michael, Nancy, Sam, Jan...     my childhood friends Gary and John...and my new Taiwan friends Lu, Allen, Joseph, Michael, Jeff, David, Huang, Charlene, Peggy, Daw-Ming, Joe, Yen,  Roger, Jin Ting, Lil, Judy, Darren, Zinfa, Joel, Henry, Jason, Michael, Joan.

CULTURES

I am grateful for good Americans, Taiwanese, Japanese, Thai.

PLACES

I am grateful for Taiwan, Monhegan Island, Santa Fe, Point Lobos, Vermont, Grenada, Lagne, Paris.

MOODS

I am grateful for thousands of experiences that have helped me feel hurt, angry, compassionate, rebellious, wondrous, creative, passionate, playful, moved.