To Be Thankful

by Heidi Barr

Photo by Jill Dimond on Unsplash

I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. –Alice Walker

It was late fall the year that my daughter was eight months old and didn’t care for the practice of sleeping. The leaves had fallen, the days were getting colder by the day, and I was tired. She wouldn’t take a bot…