What I am grateful for today is:
[Do I start this blog with numbers or bullet lists???? Who labelled lists as 'bullet' lists?]
- The obvious one would be family (including fur baby Ryder) and friends who have been there during good times and bad
- Being alive -- I guess I should be grateful for this or else I wouldn't be writing this blog in the first place
- The ability to use and somewhat understand technology to write this blog - thanks Google, Bill Gates, YouTube, Tesla (Nikola Tesla for his contributions on electricity) and whoever invented the internet
- Being Canadian and living in Canada. Having travelled to over 30 countries and learning about unique and great cultures around the world...still hoping to travel to more places
- All the horsemen and horsewomen --RESPECT
- you are helping me through my journey [and passion] to help heal equine
- My students -- as I learn everyday thanks to them. I just hope that I bestow one pearl of wisdom per course
- Academia: I have been blessed with great profs and it has been a salvation for me when times were tough
- It also helped me garner jobs thanks to having some alphabet soup after my name
- Past employers and some super duper great bosses who treated me as a peer vs a subordinate. I also want to thank the ones that weren't so great as it was still a lesson learned. It is very important to treat people well with; respect, dignity and pay them their worth.
- Mentors who didn't know they were mentoring me:
- Ellen DeGeneres & Opray Winfrey: for their kindness, generosity, intelligence, wit, inspiring others to be great leaders
- I was blown away by seeing Opray speak live -- great orator (double respect)
- Bill Gates: we wouldn't be communicating the way we are without his help and part in creating computers while working for IBM
- Hal (couldn't help myself with this space odyssey movie reference)
- Ray Kurzweil & Kai-Fu Lee: both are fascinating AI gurus
- Let's see where AI and robotics will take and maybe lead us
- J.K. Rowling for her creativity, inspiring imagination, allowing us to make believe and dream for all ages
- David Suzuki: is it ok for me to admit on this forum that I have had a crush on him since I was little? Thanks for educating me and the world to take care of this fragile yet flexible planet
- Many others...but not enough space..perhaps another blog?
- Mother Earth -- until we all live with Elon Musk on Mars.... thanks for letting me live on this wonderful planet filled with some pretty awesome [and wacky] people, animals, plants, and minerals
