I was living in the moment while also living in gratitude (extra points).
Along with her sadness, she also felt an extra measure of gratitude as she listened to the kids perform Star Wars that spring evening.
Perhaps a stack of issues of the Gazette des Beaux Arts, of which he became the editor and proprietor, or the still-life of asparagus stalks that he bought from Edouard Manet at a price that prompted the painter to send him a canvas of an extra stalk in wry gratitude.
He did not have trouble finding a reserve of gratitude for five extra years.
Of the first synthetic transplant, he said: "All of us involved in Andemariam Beyene's care wanted to give him the very best chance possible, and he and his family expressed their gratitude for the extra years we gave him".
For example, I could focus on the fact that this disease has taken away a career I once loved or I could feel gratitude for the extra time I now have to spend with my children and patient education and advocacy.
Taking chances, not knowing if your work is going to amount to anything but going through it anyway, searching for more than acceptance or gratitude but finding extra satisfaction if you do happen to get either and developing who you are and who you want to be for yourself.
Inside, in gratitude for all the extra hours of holiday merchandising she had contributed, were six bottles of wine.
It'll show that you put extra time and effort into your gratitude (and frankly, it can be fun!).
At the end she is tossing flowers into the audience, then ripping up set lists as extra souvenirs - an eccentric show of gratitude after such an uneven night.
