"Love" is the prompt for day 19 of Positively Present's #Gratitude30 challenge.

We are invited to contemplate the various types of love we have experienced and continue to experience.

As today is also #InternationalMensDay, I have been thinking about the men in my life who show me love, each in their own way.

🔹My parent - it has taken my entire lifetime for us to get to the relationship we have now - where I feel comfortable sharing with him, where I hope that he feels comfortable sharing with me. Ups and downs, life skills and life lessons.

🔹My sibling - it constantly amazes me to see him full grown and doing things. Forever in my heart even though I really didn't like him till he was a toddler. Understands me better than most people in the world.

🔹My partner - who lets me be as I am. Acceptance and support on so many different levels.

🔹Special mention: my guy cousins, bless them.

As I'm thinking about blessings, I know that having the support and love of these men is exactly that, a blessing. Sometimes we drive each other crazy, there are misunderstandings and quarrels but we do our best to connect from a good space. They are a solid foundation upon which I build my life.

I invite you today to think about love and also about the men in your life.

~Renee Arundhati

*these posts are also being shared on my social media (Instagram and Facebook) as I have shared there over the past years.