2016, I’m ready!

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. –  Ralph Waldo Emerson

May your heart

be filled with gratefulness

as 2015 ends.

May your soul

be filled

with hope

as 2016 begins.

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After posting my 2015 in Review, that made me really giddy, here’s the five INSPIRING things that I am grateful for as 2015 ends and 2016 begins! They have been the inspirations of my posts here in A Reading Writer!

Day 25: I am grateful for Sara Bareilles! 

I haven’t been a fan since last year and I am more than glad that I discovered her music. Her lyrics are just so great, and her voice is just magnificent!

Her songs have inspired two well-loved stories by A Reading Writer: Used to be Mine: A Song-based Fiction and Seasons: Epilogue.

Day 26: I am grateful for Blogging U’s writing courses!

Especially, Ben and Cheri! 😀 Your passion in writing and blogging is contagious! Look how you’ve made A Reading Writer a better blog (content wise!). Thank you so much!

Day 27: I am grateful for Mitch Albom!

You actually know that this is coming, right? 😀 A lot of my posts (Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Quotes I Loved From The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom; Monday Musings: Why humans kill each other?; WRITING 101: Things I’ve Learned from Mitch Albom and a lot more) are inspired by his words. I can definitely say that he is surely the writer that I look up to! 🙂

Day 28: I am grateful for The Broke and the Bookish!

They are the hosts of Top Ten Tuesday, a meme that I truly enjoyed doing! Thank you so much  Jamie, Lori, Daisy, Jana, Julia, Kimberly, Tahleen, Bridget and Lauren! ❤

Day 29: Lastly, for today, I am grateful for The Sumerians!

They invented the first books about 5 thousand years ago (c.3100 BC) in Southern Iraq!

As originally a book blog, A Reading Writer will not be around without them!

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