Category Archives: Nature

Lessons in Gratitude Day 652

TGIF. This is one of those Fridays when I sank to the sofa to eat an early dinner then came back to my room, sat on my bed to write my blog and woke up 30 minutes later. I am … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 650

Mystery solved. Sometimes one needs a little bit of intrigue in one’s life, a little mystery that needs solving. I was pleased that I was finally able to apply my amateur bird identification skills toward solving the mystery of the … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 643

Tonight I am grateful for something really simple. I think some of the best things are simple. I am grateful for having received a really good camera for Christmas a couple of years ago because with it I have captured … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude day 635

Tonight is a good one for simple gratitude–it has been another beautiful weather day. It is so wonderful to see watch nature bursting awake with the heat of summer-like  weather–even at this hour (8:39 p.m.) it is still 76 degrees … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 627

One of the perks to living alone is that no one else has to eat your cooking. In fact, you really don’t have to cook at all if you don’t feel like it. You can eat cereal for dinner if … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 593

Last night as I was driving home from work I was startled by a remarkable sight. I had just reached a  “breakaway” on the highway, that place where the traffic finally starts moving again after having been bogged down in … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 555

Sooner or later I knew that someone would finally discover the bird feeder I’d hung outside my living room window. I might have known it would be a squirrel. I’d always had feeders hung back in my house in Michigan. … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 530

I woke this morning listening to the somewhat unexpected sound of birds singing. It sounded much more like a midsummer morning than early winter, but the sun was out and the sky was blue and the birds were happy. I … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 415

Today has been a busy and reasonably productive day. I am grateful to be sitting down and essentially calling it a night in terms of physical work. Once again I spent most of the day on my feet or walking … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 361

I so love the natural world–animals, birds, trees, plants, even insects, arachnids and reptiles. This includes rocks and stars and all manner of things. Nature provides a virtually inexhaustible supply of fuel for gratitude. No matter how challenging or even … Continue reading

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