Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing

Lessons in Gratitude Day 954–Lazy Days

Today I am grateful for lazy days. I have precious few of them it seems. Even on weekends I have a variety of things to do and if I should fail to do them on Saturday a haze of guilt … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 852

I’m trying to ignore the sniffling and am acting like I am not coming down with something. Who has time for that? Certainly not me. I have been fortunate to have been able to will myself past those times I … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 827

I can’t help it. I am so grateful that it’s Friday I can hardly stand it. I don’t mean to be a broken record about it, but these days I am ready to collapse when I get home on Friday … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 775

I am grateful tonight for being able to take a nice, long exhale. I’m tired enough that I decided to spin the wheel and see where it landed. The past week has been a pretty good for writing original posts. … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 756

Tonight I am grateful for many things: first for a safe return for me and my sister and her kids from our vacation “down south” in North Carolina. The traffic was a bit heavier upon our return, so the drive … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 746

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 714

Today has been one of those days that Mama warned me about. I don’t really have too much to say about it except that at the conclusion of it I am exhausted to the bone. This morning as I woke … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 661

This has been an amazing weekend. I love it when something is good for no particular reason. This weekend, today, has been like that. Who’d have thunk it? And now it’s early–7 p.m. here in the greater DC Metro area–and … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 658

Greetings everyone, This is Michal Jones! I am  honored to be blogging for my mother tonight. ————————————————————- Today, I chose vulnerability. It has been a week for me. There’s nothing external that has been particularly challenging or different about this … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 601

As was predicted and as so many of us had hoped, we got our “snow day” today. When I woke this morning I had a text message and an email from our school letting us know that the campus would … Continue reading

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