Category Archives: Friends

Lessons in Gratitude Day 255

Posted on March 25, 2012 by mtchamblee

I am grateful for everyone who reads this blog on a regular, periodic or semi-occasional basis. Sometimes I hear from people whom I had no idea were reading this. They report that they benefit a lot from these daily musings. … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 245

Posted on March 14, 2012 by mtchamblee

These days it feels like I spend half my life in my car, running here and there only to get there and turn around and come back here. Back and forth and back and forth and…well, you get the idea. … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 224

Posted on February 8, 2012 by mtchamblee

And so another day has come and gone. I’m grateful for another day. Kahlil Gibran says, “wake at daw with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” I can’t say for sure that I woke with … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 202

Posted on January 17, 2012 by mtchamblee

I am so grateful to have such a wonderful array of people in my life, and for the technology that has often facilitated my connecting or reconnecting to them. Today via Facebook I chatted with a work colleague from back … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 181

Posted on December 27, 2011 by mtchamblee

I am grateful this evening for traveling mercies, for a safe, relatively uneventful day of travel. I am a bit weary and had to pop tylenol throughout the course of the day for a nagging headache, but I am back … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 167

Posted on December 13, 2011 by mtchamblee

I could learn a few things from my friend Honor. Like many of us she has her idiosyncrasies and foibles, even some neuroses here and there. But for the most part she is happy, easygoing, and doesn’t let anything get … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 163

Posted on December 9, 2011 by mtchamblee

Click, click, click…that’s the sound of things clicking into place. This project that is my life has been under construction for quite some time. While this has been true for a few years, the last 11 months of upheaval simply … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 154

Posted on November 30, 2011 by mtchamblee

Today I am once again grateful to have such wonderful people in my life–from my siblings, children, family and friends to the people I volunteer with at the Berkeley Food Pantry, to the wonderful community at East Bay Meditation Center, … Continue reading →

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