Author Archives: mtchamblee

Lessons in Gratitude Day 751

Posted on August 3, 2013 by mtchamblee

Tonight I am grateful to be safe and sound sitting in the living room in the beach house my sister has rented in North Carolina. I drove for six hours, of which the last two were in the dark and … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 750

Posted on August 2, 2013 by mtchamblee

It has been a long week of the kinds of ups and downs and side-to-sides that can only come with another wild ride on Mephistopheles the mechanical bull. At least this wasn’t one of those high octane rides when it’s … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 749

Posted on August 1, 2013 by mtchamblee

“Sometimes fear of the thing is greater than the thing itself.” A very wise quote and an important concept. Okay, so I said the quote, and I can’t take full credit for the concept. It simply means that sometimes I … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 748

Posted on July 31, 2013 by mtchamblee

This afternoon while I was in a meeting my daughter sent me a text message that I didn’t see until some hours later. She was asking for help with a financial and transportation challenge that needed to be resolved in … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 747

Posted on July 30, 2013 by mtchamblee

Tonight was a good one to spin the wheel and see what happened. It landed on a blog from July 19, 2011, a very early blog (Day 20). It is helpful to me to go back and read blogs from … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 746

Posted on July 29, 2013 by mtchamblee

Today I had an ah ha moment, or perhaps it was, as my Aunt Jeanne used to say, and “oh me” moment. I was at a meeting of a large group of people and as is often the practice in … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 745

Posted on July 28, 2013 by mtchamblee

Somehow I let the better part of the day get away from me. I got up, wrote in my journal as usual, took care of the dog and other things, had some breakfast, then headed to the grocery store to … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 744

Posted on July 27, 2013 by mtchamblee

“To find what one is fitted to do and to secure the opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.” Or so John Dewey said in 1923. I have often pondered the notion of finding out what I am … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 743

Posted on July 26, 2013 by mtchamblee

Tonight I am grateful for my friends. I have been alive for over 50 years–now closer to 60 than 50 actually–and I am blessed to still have a few friends in my life who go back nearly as far as … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 742

Posted on July 25, 2013 by mtchamblee

I am rapidly approaching the time when I will stop writing this blog on a daily basis. I’m not quite sure when it’s going to be but my promise to those of you who read this regularly is to let … Continue reading →

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