Susannah Stewart Stories | Susannah Is Six
Count Your Blessings
Instead of tallying your troubles
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
Susannah Stewart’s Haiku
I will be grateful
For the opportunities
To express myself
Earlier in the afternoon, Susannah Stewart had complained to her best friend, her dictionary, Merriam-Webster.
“Merriam, can you believe I gotta write a poem about something that I am grateful for just to get out of going with Grandmother Iline to Melanie’s house tonight?”
Merriam-Webster: close call: a narrow escape
Susannah agreed.
“Well, you might be right. I could have gotten the no holds barred tyranny treatment or even worse, the ‘this will build your character’ routine. No way I could have gotten out of going to Melanie’s if Grandmother had resorted to one of those.”
“There’s nothing more miserable than an entire evening of Cousin Scarlett’s blah blah ‘Melanie is so precious, and what will we do about…