Blessings

Obvious blessings in my life.  

Am I deliberately and consciously aware and thankful of them?  

Of what merely having life means?  

The fish parable told in a Kenyon College graduation speech in 2005 richly captures how easy it is for me to overlook the obvious blessings in my life.              

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”        

RIP Mr. Wallace. And thank you for painting that picture for me.