Category Archives: Gratitude

Lessons in Gratitude Day 886

Posted on December 16, 2013 by mtchamblee

I spend way too much time on Facebook sometimes. I get stuck there because that’s where I post this blog each night. The process of writing the blog takes me about an hour, but the posting easily takes another hour … Continue reading →

Posted in Gratitude, Writing | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 885

Posted on December 15, 2013 by mtchamblee

Tonight I am once again grateful for simple things. Here they are in no particular order. This morning during my journal writing time I was exploring a little more deeply some of the seasonal sadness I described in yesterday’s post. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Gratitude, Simple Blessings/Gratitude | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 884

Posted on December 14, 2013 by mtchamblee

525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutes How do you measure, measure a year? “Seasons of Love” from the musical “Rent” How do you measure a year? How do you measure a lifetime? I am feeling very philosophical as … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Gratitude, Letting Go | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 882

Posted on December 12, 2013 by mtchamblee

Mama said there’ll be days like this, there’ll be days like this Mama said. Mama said there’ll be days like this, there’ll be days like this my Mama said. There is this interesting phenomenon that I experience every once in … Continue reading →

Posted in Gratitude, Patience, Resilience | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 881

Posted on December 11, 2013 by mtchamblee

I know I have been more tired than I am tonight. I can’t say “Oh my god, I can’t remember when I was this tired,” because the truth is I can remember times I’ve been much more tired. So I’m not … Continue reading →

Posted in Gratitude, Life Purpose | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 880

Posted on December 10, 2013 by mtchamblee

Today was a snow day. Yesterday was an odd weather day–delayed opening and work and power outages wreaked havoc on the campus and surrounding area. This morning the winter storm they meteorologists had predicted showed up right on time, exactly … Continue reading →

Posted in Gratitude, Overcoming Challenges, Overcoming Fear, Perseverance, Resilience | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 879

Posted on December 9, 2013 by mtchamblee

Greetings and Thanks To each other as people To the Earth mother of all, greetings and thanks To all the waters, waterfalls, and rain, rivers and oceans, greetings and thanks To all the fish life, greetings and thanks The grains … Continue reading →

Posted in Gratitude, Nature, Simple Blessings/Gratitude | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 878

Posted on December 8, 2013 by mtchamblee

Another Sunday evening. It has been a nasty day, weather-wise. First snow, then sleet, then freezing rain, and now just plain old rain. All of this has happened in the span of about 12 hours. For the most part I … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Four-legged Companion, Gratitude, Simple Blessings/Gratitude | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 877

Posted on December 7, 2013 by mtchamblee

A little while ago I told my sister Ruth that I couldn’t think of anything that I was grateful for. What I more correctly should have said was that I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about being … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Gratitude, Simple Blessings/Gratitude | Leave a comment

Lessons in Gratitude Day 876

Posted on December 7, 2013 by mtchamblee

I’m grateful to be at the end of another day, another week. This has been one more long, exhausting, week. At the point at which I first started dictating tonight’s blog I’d been stuck in traffic for an hour and … Continue reading →

Posted in Gratitude | Leave a comment