Monthly Archives: March 2012

Lessons in Gratitude day 251

This has been a rich, full day. So rich and full, in fact, that it is already 11:00 p.m. here in California and most of my Eastern time zone readers are fast asleep, as I wish I was! Today has … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 250

Today the teller at the bank where I do all my high finance asked me, “Has anyone ever told you that you have a beautiful smile? You always seem so happy.” I probably smiled in momentary embarrassed surprise before bumbling … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 249

Today has been another good, long day. It is a day for simple gratitude. This afternoon I got an email from a “feel good” group that I subscribed to a few years back. Every couple of weeks or so they … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 248

It has been another interesting day. I divided most of my time today between three major endeavors. First, I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things. We were out of some essentials, so essentials I went … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 247

Yesterday I took a little break from writing this blog. It was another one of those, “I-don’t-have-it-in-me” days when I simply didn’t have enough psychic energy to string words together in a coherent sentence. I struggled through the day pretty much … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 246

“The more stressful, dangerous, baffling or unpleasant your situation, the more important it is to laugh at it” ~Martha Beck, Life Coach and Writer I like Martha a lot. I am currently reading her most recent book, “Finding Your Way … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 245

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 244

Wow, am I tired! It’s a good tired, though. From waking early to write, heading off to earn my daily bread, and then off to a wonderful evening class about the central Buddhist teaching on the Eightfold Path, it’s been … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 243

Today has been a good day. Nothing monumental happened, it was simply a good, regular kind of day. I am in some ways grateful for its normal-ness (yes I know the word is normalcy, but that doesn’t sound quite right.) … Continue reading

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Lessons in Gratitude Day 242

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I’ve taken a lot of journeys and a lot of single steps over the course of my life, the last few years in particular. Moving to California nearly seven … Continue reading

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