An attitude of gratitude
Gratitude takes nothing for granted.
All posts tagged: Thanksgiving
Our year in photos – 2022
2022 in photos…capturing a remarkable year of growth, travel, family, friends, and love.
Stop and smell the roses
Rebecca Solnit suggests that no matter life’s challenges, we need to smell the roses along the way.
Our year in photos – 2021
2021 in photos…still in a pandemic watch, but thankful we could be together.
Observations from a lockdown: Being grateful. Giving thanks.
It is easy to give thanks when everything is going well. It is more important to be open to gratefulness in challenging times.
Our year in photos – 2020
Let’s start our “year in photos” collection with a Zoom screenshot of our Mother’s Day brunch!
Be thankful every day
Why do we often wait until an individual or team completes a major project to offer thanks? Last week’s PastForward 2018 national preservation conference in San Francisco certainly falls in the successful major project category in my work, and I do want to thank our core team of Susan, Farin, Rhonda, Colleen, Alison, Nicky, Lizzy, Diana, Michelle, Reagan, Sandi and Priya. They helped lead us through an inspiring week. I’ve often thought we shouldn’t wait for a holiday such as the one we are celebrating this week in the U.S. or only at the end of a project like PastForward to recognize others. A few years ago I became intentional about saying “thank you” to someone every day. It is one of the smartest things I ever did as I get so much more out of life since I began that practice. If for no other reason, it reminds me how much I depend on the kindness of others. I believe there is a distinction between gratefulness and thankfulness. If we are fully aware, fully …
Our year in photos – 2017
Pictures of the family from across the world.
Gratefulness and thankfulness
This is the time of year when we turn our thoughts to Thanksgiving. I was taught from a very young age that it was very important to be thankful, as I often heard my grandmother admonish us to “always say ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’” I won’t get into the “you’re welcome” vs. “no problem” debate, but you can probably guess, given my age, where I land on that topic! Some suggest we too often say “thank you” by rote. I find that to be true in my experience and began to wonder if we mistake other thoughts and emotions as thankfulness. Fortunately, I came across a blog post that helped me sort through at least some of these thoughts. The author, a Benedictine monk who holds retreats for groups from a variety of religious and non-religious traditions., makes the case that at least some of what we think of as thankfulness is actually gratefulness. He suggests it is important to understand the difference and then describes the two in this fashion: “Remember a night when …
Our year in photos – 2014
A cross-country trip and a visit to see Andrew in Copenhagen were part of our 2014 year in photos.
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