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The Gratitude List

November 26, 2010

Gratitude

On this day of Giving Thanks, it’s easy to focus solely on the cooking or the guests arriving and thus miss the essence of this day.

Being Grateful.

Celebrating Abundance.

Feeling Blessed.

I often remind myself “The Best Things in Life are Not Things.”  This gratitude has nothing to do with material things, money or “having more”.

It’s about substance: people, relationships, spirit.

Here is my Gratitude List for today.

1. The Running Man who is my partner for eternity.

2. Our 2 little adorables with their mischief shrieks and laughter who have brought so much more love into our home, even when creating mayhem.

3. Our parents and siblings who provided us with quite a foundation.

4. An interesting and sorted group of ancestors whose stories have taught me “life is what you make it”.

5. Close friendships with an incredible collection of people both entertaining and inspiring.

6. Random acts of kindness by complete strangers.

7. The shocking beauty of this world.

8. Traveling to distant countries and corners of our own country to see the innate goodness of people.

9. Our U.S. soldiers stationed here and abroad who defend our freedoms.

10 This website for the reconnection with old friends, introduction to new friends and all the joy it has created.

My wishes for a fabulous, grateful day to you and yours.  Happy Thanksgiving.

What are you grateful for?  Please share – it’s so inspiring to read.

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4 Comments »

  1. Joanna Biondolillo

      on November 26, 2009 1:55 pm

    This is a wonderful list. Encompassing. I can identify with so many things on it. But I am also truly grateful for my health for the health of my father after having discovered his cancer this year. I am grateful that my mother’s cancer has not returned. I am truly thankful for the gift of being able to work in the arts and to be able to share my work with so many. Gifts after all, are meant to be passed on to others. It is important that we slow down from time to time and take a look at all that is right in our worlds. Happy Thanksgiving.

     

  2. Marla

      on November 26, 2009 10:39 pm

    Right now I am most grateful for this wonderful post, and for helping to remind me of all the things I am grateful about. Love to all!

     

  3. Julie

      on November 27, 2009 2:52 pm

    As I shared in an email to a girlfriend…
    “We are quite blessed eh? Somewhere warm to live, with more stuff than we know what to do with; a full refrigerator, with food stuffed places that it does’t usually go just because we have so much of it; finding extra chairs and bedding for friends and family because we have people to share with. “

     

  4. Heidi Farmer

      on November 27, 2009 2:53 pm

    Love it! Thanks for sharing!

     

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