Category Archives: gratitude

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 5

How lucky I am to be able • to fill the bird feeders • while the chickadees and cardinals • whistle waiting in the shrubs. Continue reading

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Day 2 NaPoWriMo 2024

This familiar paper cup • This brown cardboard sleeve… Continue reading

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Fixing the Mailbox

When I went out with my holiday cards, all zip-sorted and rubberbanded, I noticed that the rivet holding on the mailbox door on one side was gone.
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Recommended reading and listening

I read it and had huge ah HA! moments. The (couples) therapy wasn’t successful but I found it personally successful. Since then, I’ve recommended the book to lots of people over the years, along with a couple others by the same author. Continue reading

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From the Quote Box

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. — Albert Schweitzer Continue reading

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