“Home” is the prompt for day 23 of #Gratitude30. There are many spaces that I consider to be home - from my childhood home to the space I share now with my partner, from spaces where I have studied to spaces I have spent a lot of my time.

Today I give thanks for this body, the home of my spirit. This body that allows me to be active in the world. This body that has been one of my greatest teachers.

I have a very clear memory of looking at myself in the mirror, in the time before puberty, and wondering what changes would come. Over the years I have wished to be just a bit taller, a bit more willowy, a bit of something or the other. These wishes never quite came true but they have led me to gain more physical strength, more grace in my movements and overall a greater acceptance of self.

Today I find myself content, at home in my body and at peace with myself.

~Renee Arundhati

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