gratitude | gratitude
Nov.26.2010
It's Thanksgiving today. I wondered if gratitude and appreciation are very much different from each other as I walked over to Duke's from our hotel on Kuhio St. this morning. I sat on the open breeze-caressed veranda at Duke's, eating my just-fine buffet breakfast and watching people down on the...
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Nov.25.2010
When I wrote about our Canadian Thanksgiving earlier, I was focussed on taking the time to reflect upon all we have for which to be grateful. And of course that is a valuable thing to do ~ every day.
Today is Thanksgiving for my neighbours to the south and as I ruminated upon it, my mind came at...
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Nov.24.2010
Okay, so I want to express my thanks this year without the standard clichés. None of the,' Thanks for my job, thanks for my family, thanks for my health, thanks for my home.' I want to avoid the regular Thanksgiving list. It's not that I am not deeply and eternally grateful for all of these...
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Nov.24.2010
For me, the most powerful aspect of the word "gratitude" is its kinship with grace. I believe that when we give thanks -- whether for the best of times or the speck of light in the distance during the worst of times -- we are inviting grace into our lives.
With Thanksgiving upon us,...
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Nov.24.2010
For many years while I was growing up, Thanksgiving was an agony for me. I didn't like or eat turkey, and was forced to go to the home of relatives I didn't like. I coped by just eating the stuffing and mashed potatoes, and tried to help my mom by "just getting along." What I couldn't...
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Nov.24.2010
I grew up with one sibling, a younger brother, and it wasn't until I was 16 that I discovered I had two half-sisters and a half-brother who lived with our father and his second wife -- just a Greyhound bus trip away. Back then, in the late '60s, when couples with children divorced, custody...
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Nov.24.2010
By Gina Misiroglu
In celebrating Thanksgiving week, it's been my pleasure to solicit articles for AOL News from Red Room authors on the subject of what they're thankful for. The variety of answers was astonishing, but the high quality reflects what I've come to expect (and relish) from this...
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Nov.23.2010
Thanksgiving has always been among my least favorite holidays.
Not merely because of the mendacity of the traditional narrative regarding its origins -- you know, the whole "Indians and Pilgrims living in harmony" nonsense that conveniently ignores the genocide being planned even then...
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Nov.23.2010
I just returned from several weeks zigzagging up, down and across our country on a book and play tour for Changing Shoes, my book and play of the same name. This Thanksgiving my gratitude is for all the people I met when I ventured out of my New York City life. And that gratitude is immense.
As...
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Nov.23.2010
In Gratitude: Photographs for You For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson It is Thanksgiving Week, and though we don't have a Thanksgiving Day in Czech Republic...
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