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Grateful For Memories
Today is a fun time for memories with family and friends. Life passes so quickly and before we know it, or sometimes suddenly our loved ones leave us. On this day, I want to pause to be grateful for memories. It is nice to look back at old photos and remember specific events throughout each…
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A Splash of Gratitude Each Day Helps Keep the Doctor Away: Meaningful Use of Time
I am nearing 5 and 1/2 years of good health after a serious scare with illness and death. I ask myself this morning, “Did I make the most and best out of the extra 5 plus years I have been graced?” What did I do with these gifted years I asked God to give me?…
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Grateful For Friends And Family
As summer approaches it seems the world is awakening after the pandemic and people are beginning to move around again. Perhaps because I am in Southern California I am having more guests this summer, which is great. My friends and family are gathering in my home and I am so grateful for each and every…
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I’m Grateful for Slurry Sealing
It seems that all too often we take ordinary city services for granted. Recently, my city Engineering Division performed “slurry sealing” on our city streets. It was fun to watch the drivers, walkers, bikers, dogs, baby buggies, and, of course car drivers work around the slurry trucks to try to slurry our city! In the…
Keep readingGrateful For Religions
On this Good Friday I have been invited to my first Passover meal with friends. As this is Easter weekend I am reminded of so much pain and suffering and so I want to offer gratitude for the life we all celebrate together. Many people are not as fortunate this year. Please give thanks and…
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Grateful For Thoughtfulness
It seems like people are unsettled these days with so many life issues facing all of us: prices are increasing, tensions are escalating with the War, the pandemic is still lurking around us, political differences of opinion are constantly played out on the news, and other stresses generally surround us. Within these various situations, when…
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Grateful For Thankfulness
This is a wonderful day. The sun is shining in Southern CA, my son is visiting me from the Midwest, my friends call me regularly and invite me to dinner or some fun event, and I watched Judge Jackson give a speech after her Supreme Court confirmation. This morning I felt especially thankful for my…
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Grateful For Credibility
Credibility is the quality of being trusted and believed in as well as being convincing and believable. I like this concept. During these days of watching the news, or talking with friends and neighbors or colleagues, it seems difficult to determine what to believe about many different topics. Whose story do I trust? I do…
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Grateful I May Alter My Attitude
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. Henry David Thoreau As I continue to watch the horror on TV of women and children caught up in a war, my heart is breaking and I offer prayers, but the…
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Gratitude to the President of Ukraine
President Zelenskyy is a wartime hero, a global leader, and a model citizen harnessing the power of social media to teach important lessons re: humanity to all persons throughout the world. From the horrors of the war by Russia, Ukrainians’ heroism, bravery, and courage are displayed daily, 24/7, for all of us to witness and…
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Gratitude for Power, Hope, and Optimism in a Song
As I watch the horror of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, I am deeply moved by the people singing. So often during times of despair throughout history we hear “group sing”, i.e., we saw people singing together in Italy across their balconies, through activism when marching during civil rights, after terrible tragedies of bombings or mass…
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So Grateful For Celebrations of 2.22.22 Day Today!
Oh what a happy day we have experienced from the News people on TV, to my computer that sprays confetti every time I type in the sequence of 2’s, to the special articles online and descriptions of this “Tuesday’s” significance! I have learned so much about numbers today! One explanation is within an article in…
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Gratitude Squared 