Category Archives: Gratitude

Lessons in Gratitude Day 907–Day is Done

Sometimes I am like a broken record–I find myself returning to particular themes over and over again as I write this blog. But then I realize that I can’t help it. On my journey of gratitude I repeatedly reconnect with … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 906–Good People, Good Work

One of the “lessons” I learned fairly early in my 900+ days blogging about gratitude is that some days you don’t feel like writing about what you’re grateful for. In the early days of this blog it was often because … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 905–Enough is Enough

Today I made a small deposit into the bank account of one of my offspring. It wasn’t much–I didn’t have much to give. But it was more than they had and they were better for the having. I pondered this … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 903–A Moment of Grace

Lately I’ve been thinking about restarting a daily gratitude practice. That said, I am not at all certain I can do a daily blog as I did for some 700-plus straight days throughout much of 2012 and 2013. Still, I … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 902–Gratitude Revisited

On June 30, 2011 I wrote the first post of Lessons in Gratitude. It was an experiment, and I had no idea at the time that it was going to take me where it did. For over two years and … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 901

It has been a challenging time the last few months, challenging in a very different way than what I faced back in 2011 when I first began writing this blog, but challenging nonetheless. Today I am looking back in gratitude … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 900

This morning  I awoke before the alarm rang. I had it set for 8:00 a.m. and will make it progressively earlier over the next few days in an attempt to, as best I can, get my body prepared for the … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 899

On June 30, 2011, I wrote the first of these Lessons in Gratitude (Day One). I’m not sure I ever wrote down why I decided to call them “lessons,” I suppose I figured that there were things I was learning … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 898

It is such an odd feeling to be winding down writing this blog. I have begun thinking about what I am going to do with the time I’ve normally devoted to writing this blog each night–somewhere between 45 minutes and … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 897

One of the downsides of singling out one of five siblings for “special” recognition (though I’m not sure that writing about them in this blog constitutes “special…” not like winning an award of some kind, for example) is that I … Continue reading

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