Today I’m grateful for more sleep in attempting to shake this cold, for Tylenol and cough drops, and comfort food. And I’m grateful for washing machines and dryers, and microwaves and ovens, and all the things like that I so often take for granted. For clean, fresh smelling clothes, warm blankets, iced water, green tea and lemon, Terrace House on Netflix, the gentleness of the Japanese, the gift of human interaction, and the time to ponder it all.