Giving Thanks

Dear World,

What I am grateful for this Thanksgiving:

1. Life – Without it I wouldn’t be here

2. Earth – Thank you for letter me live here

3. Love – The highest form of human being.

4. Family – for all the wisdom, support, and love you have brought into my life. For being that quiet support in the backdrops, living life as you do.

5. Books, Meditation, Yoga, Ontology, The Bible, Jesus Christ, the Rabbis, the Monks and Priests, the Seeks, the CEO’s and the ladies who make me yummy “asada burritos” from the back of a truck with handmade tortillas and fresh authentic salsas. Guitar, Piano, Raggae, Classical Music, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Horowitz, David Wilcox, Wernar Erhard and Landmark Education, Saddleback Church, Rick Warren and the Peace Movement…Kay Warren and her advocacy…to Barack Obama for being a man of inspiration to many. I pray for all other World Leaders.

6. I give a special thank you to my Dad, Danielovsky (St. Daniels) Monastery in Moscow Russia, Father Antony who gave me the tip to go there. After spending 12 hours in the airport with no place to go $100 dollars in my pocket to survive 10 days on the streets of Moscow; I thank Father Phillip who took me in off the cold streets of Moscow to feed, house and provide an environment for reflection and prayer. Thank you Sister Nina from Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church in Los Angeles, who taught me about faith, prayed with me, instructed me and enforced a healthy diet and exposed me to the practice of juicing. To Father Alexander, St. Nina, Grandma and late Grandpa Baker.

7. Thank you to the spiritual and physical healing I was blessed to receive at St. John’s Orthodox Church in San Francisco.

8. Thank you St. Sava for carving the way for the Serbian People, to the Serbian People and Sinisa “Ziggy” and Melia Rocovic. Forever, I will remember you on the happiest day of your lives.

9. To all my buddies, business partners, mentors and acquaintances.

10. To my mom Nina…whose life was short. I miss her and pray for her spirit. To Grandma Luda, who taught me lessons of life through experience in some of the early years of my life.

11. To juicing, fasting, herbs, deprivation, poverty, uncertainty, and the powers of endurance.

12. To love, the notion of it, experiences and experimenting with it and living life fully.

13. To the people that helped make Ninas Blankets come to life…it is with their help that children all over the world in need will receive a blanket on behalf on Nina.

14. Questions – the more the better…let’s get to know this world! And to Socrates who taught me that, “an unexamined life is not worth living.”

15. Music, In General. Languages and Cultures. Russia, Serbia, Italy, Greece, Amsterdam, England, France, Spain, Brasil and Mexico. To Venice and Korea Town and the “City of Angels” Los Angeles.

16. Humanity – Let us expand the boundaries of life and let love shine!