Today I'm thankful to have started a new old part-time job to complement my Zumba work and my Witness for Peace work. My professor who I worked for since sophomore year of college and I am happy to also call a friend is back from a term off and we can jump back into some projects we had left off at the end of the summer. And because I as an alum can no longer be a student employee, I'm ever the more grateful that he still values our working relationship and wants to hire me very part-time but out of his own pocket.
I'm also thankful to add another part-time use of my skills to the mix since a friend's mom contacted me today about taking tennis lessons from me. I've been blessed to have been involved with this sport since I was little, that I could find work teaching tennis all through high school, and that if for whatever reason I cannot find work in my field, I have teaching tennis to fall back on. Plus, I love teaching private lessons. Akin to my reason for enjoying tutoring, it fills me with joy to work one-on-one with someone to improve their weaknesses, build on their strengths, and encourage them along the journey.
I'm thankful to be relatively on top of my Gmail inbox, a rare occurrence. And typically that would be an indicator of slacking off in other areas of my life, but somehow I have been getting done what needs to get done along the way. I perhaps have not gotten as much on my Cuba blog done as I would like, but I now have a self-imposed deadline that I want to devote all my energies to fulfilling!
And I'm thankful for an article a dear friend posted on Facebook that talks about the necessity of love in scientific terms. 10 things you might not know about love. Check it out! One of the phrases I love is "micro-moments of positivity resonance" - little positive connections with other human beings that we can frame ourselves to recognize. "Simply upgrading your view of love changes your capacity for it." Love is pure and purely amazing, and we all can live healthier, more peaceful, more content, more joyful lives when we notice all the little ways love twinkles in our lives even when we sometimes feel far from the sustained, ever-present God love that can just wrap you up in a hug. God may be greater than human understanding, but we can see the evidence of love all around us if we attune our vision to it.
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