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Category Archives: Overcoming Challenges
Lessons in Gratitude Day 941
This week I rode Mephistopheles the mechanical bull. I’m not sure when I invented Mephisto, but he continues to be an apt metaphor for the kinds of twists and turns my life appears to take in a given moment. Or … Continue reading
Lessons in Gratitude Day 934–Persistence Revisited
This evening I conked out with my laptop on my lap, chin on my chest. I am still exhausted from the long week and find myself yet again digging into my repository of earlier posts for tonight’s lesson. To determine … Continue reading
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Lessons in Gratitude Day 919–Making it Easy
I am grateful this evening for some very down-to-earth, homespun wisdom from my my brother, with whom I converse on Skype periodically. He reads this blog faithfully (he has since the very first one in June 2011) and every once … Continue reading
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Lessons in Gratitude Day 913–Even When My Step Falters
During difficult days a few years ago when I was struggling to find a job, grieve my father’s passing, and overcome a variety of heartbreaks, there were days when I sat in front of my computer searching my weary mind … Continue reading
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Lessons in Gratitude Day 880
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
Lessons in Gratitude Day 846
This evening I am winding down from a tiring day and looking ahead to a very, very long day ahead at work. I have decided to spin the wheel. Interestingly I landed on the piece I posted after I had … Continue reading
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Lessons in Gratitude Day 843
Today as I was driving, someone honked their car horn at me. I had been in the wrong; I had started into an intersection that I thought was a four-way stop but wasn’t. I hadn’t actually gone into the intersection, … Continue reading
Lessons in Gratitude Day 823
I am grateful tonight for every one of us who has struggled with something, who have fallen down, and battered and bruised, scraped and bleeding, scrambled to get back up, wobbly at first but gradually regaining strength and stability. Whether … Continue reading
Lessons in Gratitude Day 822
“I love you like the moon at night, big and round, warm and bright…” This evening as I returned home from an evening at my sister’s house I noticed something I hadn’t seen for the past several nights: the moon … Continue reading
Lessons in Gratitude Day 783
I am grateful tonight for staying power, for the power of perseverance. I know I write about perseverance a lot, but when you deal with a lot of tough stuff on a semi-regular basis, or you’ve been through a lot, … Continue reading
