Gratitude

Indulge me, friends, if you please.

Today, I'm sitting on my bed in yoga pants (which I totally bought for sitting around the house instead of doing yoga) and binging on Firefly on Netflix while drinking dark roast coffee with sugar-free Smores syrup. Now tell me that's not the lap of luxury!

It's an afternoon in stark contrast to Saturday when I watched lights flicker on and off as rain and wind from Hurricane Matthew battered the state where I live (South Carolina). My area was very fortunate. Downed trees and some minor flooding - not like last year's 1000-year-flood. By the way, I get that people call it that because it was the worst flooding South Carolina has seen in a thousand years, but every time I hear the term, I think they mean it's been flooding for a thousand years.

Anyway... The point I'm working up to is how grateful and blessed I feel today. And to say how broken my heart is for areas not so lucky. It's on us now to find ways to help. I can't get on a plane and fly to Haiti and help rebuild homes, but I can support organizations that do. That's what I'm doing. Sometimes I can volunteer. Sometimes I can't. But I can almost always support aid in one way or another.

What can you do?