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mame · Messages: 1404 Location: Colorado (aka:Paradise)

***intense morning sunshine filtering through tall trees on my morning walk

***the vibrant green life all around me after more than a week of summer storms
***great ideas for my online marketing business

***positive responses from potential suppliers
***my little window air-conditioner on a hot day
***a flexible schedule that allows me to get outside during the day

***my best friend who inspires me with her courage and faith
***my best friend who is just getting her counseling practice started
***my beautiful affectionate furry purring children

~~Mame
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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and
no one to thank" ~ Christina Rossetti

Anonymous · 13/08/2007 12:38:51 Subject: Re: Gratitude Journal

Thank you for PEOPLE!
Good people -for being kind and helping others
Bad people -so we can learn from their childhoods and past mistakes and keep our children from making the same mistakes
Rich people - for helping charities and giving lots of people jobs and for showing me your materialistic side
Poor people -for showing me that you can't buy love or happiness and that as long you care more about people and even strangers than you do about having alot of crap that you can't take when you die anyway, then that makes you truly the richest person on earth.
Sick people -no disrespect to anyone but it makes me thankful that I am not one. Whatever your illness could be there is something worse out there that someone is suffering with right now. Just know suffering won't last forever and there is a person or church out there praying for you somewhere.
Healthy people -for making me
I could go on and on why I am thankful for all kinds of people but hopefully you have gotten my point. I wouldn't be me without all the people I have met during my life so far. Some have influced me to be good and some bad but I can always look to others for their experiences and advice to help me along the way. What would we all be without other people? I certainly wouldn't be typing this whole thing up if someone hadn't thought of the great idea of grattitude journal. The people of the world are perfectly balanced. If the whole world were rich and healthy the earth wouldn't last long. Be thankful for who you are and love all those you meet along the way even the bad ones you occasionally meet. They are just trying to survive here the best they know how.

Anonymous · 17/08/2007 15:42:28 Subject: Re: Gratitude Journal

Good nurses. Thank you for ll of the good nurses that take the time nd effort to be so good at their job that I on't go home at night and worry about papa. He is so fragile, so very thin, and so discouraged because his life is slipping away. If it weren't for the nurses that smile and laugh with him,bring him an extra pillow, and just ask him if there is anything they can do...it just makes it easier for me to sleep at night and to encourage my dear husband that his father is safe. They don't ask for anything in return and yet I know they havemany things sad in their own lives but just for now they treat papa as if he is so very special.

Anonymous · 21/08/2007 04:09:04 Subject: Re: Gratitude Journal

busdrivers.

mame · Messages: 1404 Location: Colorado (aka:Paradise)

**Local Farmers' Market
**Free Jazz Concert in the Park afterward
**"Peaches and Cream" Corn on the cob
**Crepes
**Aromatherapy
**Cool breeze coming in the window last night
**My neighbor who brought me homegrown tomatoes
**A beautiful morning and then a cloudy day that I don't think hit 80 degrees.

~~Mame
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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and
no one to thank" ~ Christina Rossetti

Mallory · Messages: 1051

~The nuts in the ice cream
~fresh, warm, homemade biscuits with butter and honey
~My sister taking humongous risks and really standing in her own skin

~My first chance to go to the songwriting class in Yellowsprings and the support from all the music therapy club members even though I'm missing club... ^.^
~the song that is still playing on repeat, and my new, if strange connection to playing songs on repeat and Indian chants and mantras used in Indian music therapy ... yeah, it may be out there, but I never realized how much playing the same song 11 times in a day made me feel that much more in sync with myself..... hmmmm
~leaving early for existentialism to see a new friend and maybe one of my favorite teachers

~the way our storypeople family always makes me feel.
~Love

Peace in your hearts,
With the love of my soul
~Mallory

~*Music is the vernacular of the human soul*~

Krista · Messages: 491

Oh boy!

I'm grateful to have joined this community, so I can read and hear about the lives of those around me, especially my Mallory, whom I haven't really gotten to see much of in her true form today...

I'm grateful to be taking the humongous risks that are allowing me to stand in my own skin, and to be feeling good that I'm finally going for it.

Grateful for people who put up with me no matter what, including Mallory and Greg my wonderful fiance, and some other people who I have come to look to as mentors and good friends.

Grateful for classes that stimulate the mind and make me want to stand in my own skin as an independant free thinker

For love. For family. For life.

Lizzy · Messages: 3

-air conditioning
-music
-life
-friends
-Whose Line is it Anyway
-more music
-art
-color

harley · Messages: 12 Location: Where stars greet lightning bugs

Today I am thankful for:

My boys- Ryan and Nicholas
Some quiet, reflective time
The sun
A long chat with my sister- helping to destress after a toddler meltdown at storytime.
My husband- SO THANKFUL for him. My rock, my love, my strength. He has gone above and beyond to keep my world calm as we await our third little blessing.
Lastly, I am thankful for the tiny baby I am carrying.

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Reach for the lowest hanging star- FREEDOM.

Ladybug · Messages: 19 Location: Tucker, Georgia USA

The new swing on my deck, where I've spent a lot of time being calm and happy lately.

Mallory · Messages: 1051

The progression of color on every deciduous tree as autumn flies by in gusts of spattered rain and wind, the Ohio weather continuum and how it doesn't require any gray to get from black to white or PURPLE for that matter... you know. 75 one day, 20 the next, and 47 the day after that. Good times, good times. I especially love that this late autumn, now that over half the leaves have fallen from most of our deciduous trees, we get to go home and "breathe" for a few days.

I'm grateful that I know that I'm going to miss college even more than I miss high school. Kinda funny how we think we're never going to miss anything more than what we're in. Kinda beautiful how we only grow to love everything more when we miss it. Kinda cool to realize how blessed we are to love it to begin with.

Peace in your hearts,
With the love of my soul
~Mallory

~*Music is the vernacular of the human soul*~

Bellavie · Messages: 1

An amazing family with wonderfully creative and brilliant personalities.
A career that pays well and has great people and flexible hours
Girly perfumes and lotions that make your skin feel like butta
Dreams...night time movies of your own creation
smooth skin.
Being able to create my life as I want
Second chances to rediem myself.
El fresco lunches in fancy restaurants with great friends talking about fashion to politics and joking.
Shopping in fancy stationary places dreaming up invitations for parties and cocktails.
Playing music on my Zen in my car with a jazzy, oldies, brazilian funk playlist for the journey.
Driving a great car with no car payment.
Having an accountant to work out my financial books and keep my reports clean, clear and beautiful.
Clearing and blessing my house.
Giving myself permission to walk as exercise instead of trying to make my work out "work".
Surrendering to the divine and listening to my inner guidence.
The expansion and healing of my family and finding that I have a new cousin Emmie.
Chasing the Strawberry Moon with Christine and sipping moon water in a Walnut Orchard.
Freedom
The Smell of Fresh Flowers - Tiger Lillies, Star Gazer Lillies, Tuberoses, Roses, Hydragias, Peony
The smell of rain and earth.
The Taste of Chocolate - Lindt (Red Box), Lindt Truffles (Blue Box), Dagoba, Symphony
The Sound of Water running
The sound of wind chimes
The sound of the wind going through the trees
The sound of soft bells
The sound of rain falling hitting the window glass
The sound of thunder storms, Even when the lights go out and you need candles to sit in the dark,
The sound of rain during the night when I sleep.
Having the ability feel free and choose every aspect of my life.
That I can be honest with myself even if it hurts to see the truth. I will see the truth.
connecting vibrationally with people.
loving deeply and I being loyal.
Early mornings to journal and light candles and listen to music before I go to work.
angels, goddesses, asended masters and saints
creating sacred space.
being connected to spiritually and emotionally
being with people I feel at home with
abundance
sensitivity, love and ease
simplicit of integrity and freedom
peace and confidence
exploring and being in community.
Enjoying intimacy.

Mallory · Messages: 1051

First of all, I have LOTS of gratitude for...

the inspiringly beautiful,
thought provoking
incredibly poetic
lovely gratitude post from Bellavie
---Thanks

finishing the song I began this summer
"In Every Moment"

... For every moment.

Especially, at least for the moment, anyway

the fact that going home is happening within the week.
the kittens that are playing with my headphones dangling off the table from my computer
that Patches and Remus got adopted!
that we took in three newbies - Milkshake, Yoda, and Dog! (Yes. Dog!)
That one of my roommates is taking home a surprise Dog Cat for her mom for Christmas, to make for a happy family and an exceedingly happy cat, not to mention an absurdly happy mom...
That I have friends who know how to use garageband
and other friends who will talk philosophy until 3am
and other friends who laugh at bizarre but lovable supervisors,
and other friends who have mom's who've been through cancer too, even though you hate what they've been through
and more friends still who are incredibly open to the strangest ideas, past experiences, and future possibilities,
for the safety of all when the coming colder weather freezes all the rain we've been having
for productivity when I finish this post
on all the papers I have to finish tonight
for the good grades on the exams I have the rest of the week!!!
for the sleep I WILL get tomorrow night
for the support and love that permeates within and around my amazing family
for the endearing stability that holds the earth between the tree roots, my friends,
for the way the stars shine through the clouds even in the city,
for smelly socks that have kept my feet warm
dirty dishes that show how much good food we've eaten
no time to clean because its the week of chaos that shows all we've been learning in some bizarre and less than realistic way but is a good and absurd challenge.
for absurdity... and AMBIGUITY at that...
for peppermint ice cream and yule logs and hot chocolate!
for anam cara

and for the thing that was absurd enough for me to come on and type all of this, even when it isn't even a fraction of a fraction of that which I would love to add to this post (which I'm grateful for!)

THE ABSOLUTE BEST BOWL OF CEREAL I've ever had in my life. Good ole' rice krispies at 2:47am, after finishing the song and while working on a paper that's ridiculously overdue... when normally I really can't stand cereal...

I'm grateful that You are Love and It is Everywhere...
halashte, karina,
~~~Mallory

Peace in your hearts,
With the love of my soul
~Mallory

~*Music is the vernacular of the human soul*~

Ozark Muse · Messages: 2 Location: Ozarks region, outhern MO

Story People
My four little reflectors of source
The shape of my words
Art in my heart

"Everything you want is downstream!"

Anonymous · 20/12/2007 08:19:39 Subject: Re: Gratitude Journal

Today, I am grateful for freedom of choice.
and that I am learning to make true choices at times,
and not just to mimic others choices as I have done in the past.

I am grateful our founding fathers created a governing body which not only incorporates personal choice, but embraces it.
I am grateful that our country protects our right to choose.

I am grateful that the Lord created us with the gift of choice.
We can choose Him or not. Any other way would be slavery.

I am thankful that I can choose to grow past my previous stance of not choosing, just going with the status quo, and can now choose to weigh the possibilities and make a Choice.

I thank God that I now sometimes choose.