gratitude | gratitude
Dec.01.2012
I think I was a challenging child.
I remember constantly being told "why can't you just...". I had trouble going with the flow.
I often ended up in the wrong side of things having gone against the grain of norm.
I was not aggressive, just difficult I guess. I hated that I heard others talk...
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Nov.27.2012
My favorite time of day is sunset.
I love sunrise too, but sunset speaks to me. It calms me and right before the day fades away, I reflect.
Of course it's always welcome after a bad day, but every sunset, after every hard fought day, brings reflection.
We are driving to spend Thanksgiving with my...
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Nov.22.2012
There is a saying—“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”—which is neither true nor helpful.
In the last few years I was diagnosed with colon cancer, which, thankfully, was caught in time. After treatment, I recovered and went back to work, and on I went.
Then my wife Kathi was diagnosed...
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Nov.21.2012
Gerry arrived in a rented pickup yesterday at noon with four squirrel dogs for him and his dad to give Jake some hunting practice. They have been at it off and on ever since being in the woods together and enjoying male camaraderie. Gerry had gotten up at 3 to drive to Birmingham to...
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Nov.21.2012
When you feel gratitude, know that you are most completely free of ego. If the anachronism for ego is “Edging God Out,” you might also think of it as “Edging GRATITUDE Out.”
When gratitude fills your heart, therefore, you are filled with God. No need to wait till Thanksgiving to begin giving...
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Nov.18.2012
Just a few thoughts at the darkening of the year. This is a hard time for many of us. First and foremost, days are shortening. In America, we have exited Daylight Savings Time, so instead of the long slow dusk we’ve been used to all summer, it’s pitch black before we even get our dinner. The warmth...
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Nov.10.2012
Despite the disappointment of the 2012 New York City Marathon being cancelled, I was fortunate to have a support team that pulled me through a situation that none of us had trained for. When I made my travel arrangements to come to New York, I knew I did not want to run it without a backup...
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Oct.22.2012
October 22
THE PRIVILEGE OF SUN RISE
I wake, happily, at 5:30. I will again see the show beyond compare. In stark contrast to the mornings I filled with moping or sober angst, shades of the same dark color, I shuck my covers, bathing and dressing with purpose...
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Oct.19.2012
Ann Patchett noted about JK Rowling:
"You have done more for reading than anyone alive. You've raised up a generation of readers around the world and made it safe for the rest of us to write and to sell books."
To which I add a great "A-MEN"
Photograph: Ben...
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Oct.05.2012
(c) 2012 Jeanne Powell "When a Legend Visits" all rights reserved
Last month I tore myself away from answering emails and walked across campus to a convocation at a parish church. This was not a religious event, but the announcement read more like a summons than an invitation to...
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