“At Thanksgiving, we should be thankful for everything in our life – even the things that may seem like challenges today. Usually, the challenges in our life lead to positive changes in our life.” Dr. Wayne Dyer “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the ...
According to researchers at the Harvard Medical School, “Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal…
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquiljoy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.Confucius There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a mi...
As our things and ourselves dry, we slowly begin the process of breaking down camp, repacking all of our belongings, saddling our horses and loading everything onto our packhorse. We take our time, deliberately enjoying the pace of this day. As we put everything away, I feel grounded in...
He sailed long skinny boats called Two-Tens and raced every weekend in the summer on the North Shore of Massachusetts. My grandfather sensed my hesitation to go with him. The whole thing would take up more than half the day, and I was unsure about being any farther from land than a ...
244.A marked-off list.When you check everything off it’s such a nice feeling. 245.The vastness of nature.When you look out into the huge ocean or the endless night sky it puts a lot of things into perspective. 246.Life experience.One key benefit to growing older. ...
Interventions targeting optimism have largely relied on the Best Possible Self activity [68] or some variant of it, where people are requested to think about their future life (“Imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could”) and then write down their reflections. Meta-...
My husband’s bff Chip once marveled at how nearly every 10 years I seem to toss everything in my life up in the air and re-invent myself and\or surroundings based on where things land. Well, probably it isn’t quite that drastic but it is true. I spent my 20s as a flight ...
Exactly twelve days after this seminar, I witnessed an interesting exchange when attending a wine dinner for completely different wines from a different country. At the end, the importer asked an attendee, “Was everything to your liking?” The person replied, “Yes. I am grateful for the op...
Everything hurts, Our hearts shadowed and strange, Minds made muddied and mute. We carry tragedy, terrifying and true. And yet none of it is new; We knew it as home, As horror, As heritage. Even our children Cannot be children, ...