A long list

This is the season -- if you can celebrate it without jumping ahead to the next one -- for celebrating blessings. For giving thanks.

I have a long list of things that make me grateful. I add to it most nights before I crawl into bed. Three things each night. Maybe that someone's in my life. Maybe that some convenience makes my life easier. Maybe that something happened that made me smile.

If I were adding to the list right now, I would write sunshine on a fall day, technology that gives access to the world, Fritos in the cupboard to go with lunch.

There are little things and there are big things. There are lots of them.

You just have to notice.

Sunshine on a fall day: Utah's State Capitol and its snow-capped mountains.