I am very grateful to be me -- living a spiritually rich life, enjoying the beauty of my surroundings -- family, friends, nature. I'm a professional calligrapher (have been doing work for Lincoln Center for many years) -- a peaceful and enjoyable way to spend time. I recently learned to play tennis and love it, enjoy laughing, especially enjoy helping people, am a reading addict and read all kinds of books -- fiction and non-fiction, very excited by spiritual & inspirational info. One of my closest friends is a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka who taught me to meditate for which I'm eternally thankful. At the moment I'd say that the most important thing I've learned so far is that while perhaps we don't have choices about everything that happens, we have a lot more ability than we are usually aware of to choose what we think -- & the quality of our lives depends a lot on the quality of our thoughts. If you don't know this yet, don't worry -- I'm probably older than you.