About This Site

I simply challenged myself one day to spend an entire year in gratitude to my God. Every day I make a special effort to find something that day that could not be coincidence. I look for the things that I love way too much for them to be a piece of a random emergence of stimuli. I look every day for a blessing that has taught me that there is far more to this world than can be currently explained. This list began for me in High School when I started something called a love list. That love list outgrew itself several times and I decided that a list was no longer enough for me to explain myself. These expressions of gratitude will most likely take many forms. If I can sum it up in a photograph then I will. Sometimes they will take the form of poems or short stories or perhaps a short movie. I may even dabble in the occasional haiku.

The word Arigatai is one of my favorite in the Japanese language. Everyone knows the word arigatou which is a simple thank you. The less-often heard Arigatai evokes a somewhat deeper sense of gratitude. Perhaps my ignorance of the Japanese language will show through right here, but to me it is a sense of wanting to pay something homage, wanting to do it justice, but being inherently unable to do such. The suffix -tai indicates that you have the desire to do something. This list is one way in which I would like to express my gratitude to my God for all of the many things that he has done for me; yet deep down I know that no matter how much I write I will not be able to completely and adequately give gratitude. I hope you enjoy and join with me in praising a God who has given us so much on My Arigatai.