My tradition has been to offer up a gratitude list for my annual celebration of life. This year, I am overwhelmed by the goodness that surrounds my life and by the sweet gathering of friends that will take place on my birthday. What could be better than that? Well, I would say getting married to …
Category Archive: Gratitude
Jun
24
Time to linger in gratitude, all 54 of them
Sometimes you hold on even when you should let go. I am ready to let go of the past year and offer space to the unfolding of the new year. In fact, I’m eager to release words such as unprecedented. But some things, I want to linger with a tad longer. I want to linger …
Jun
24
2020, Fifty-Three Celebrations of Gratitude
If you were like many of us, you welcomed 2020 into your life and lexicon with the attention to numbers. In January, so many interesting combinations lay in the 12 months ahead. Now other numbers garner attention and they are not numbers you may have ever thought to consider. As you and I continue to navigate the …
Jun
24
Annual Celebration of Gratitude
For me, this 52nd year of circling the earth has been encircled by caring and loving souls. For me, I dub this year: The Year of Kindness. Each year, I pause to recall the many generous acts of loving kindness I have been gifted. This year granted me the opportunity to publish a book I …
Jun
24
Annual Gratitudes … and Intentions
Gratitudes and Intentions In 2015, I was given the rare and beautiful gift to be beside another as he and his family navigated the final months of his life. It was a gift because I trust that gifts are revealed not in shiny packages or spoken promises or in written guarantees, but rather in the …
Jun
24
A Grateful Gratitude List
What’s in a number? So much and simultaneously so little. When my girlfriend and I were eight, her mother told her that she could invite as many friends to her birthday party as she was old. We immediately thought ahead and realized that meant she could have 21 friends at her twenty-first birthday. We never …
Jun
25
The Art of Friendship
To be a true friend to someone means being fully present in their life, even if miles separate you. Growing up, friends were created by proximity of where I could ride my bike and through school activities. For most of us, college or our first jobs widened our selection of friendships that introduced us to …
Jun
23
49 Gratitudes
Forty-nine on the periodic table is the chemical element indium, a soft metal that is malleable and easily fusible. While opinions may differ on how malleable I am, I can be flexible and open to others and to new experiences. In the year ahead indium seems like a good touch stone – or metal base …
Jun
24
Forty-Eight Gratitudes
For more than two years, I have practiced a variation of a Thich Nhat Hanh’s mediation each morning, and it goes something like this: Waking this morning, I smile A brand new day is before me I aspire to live each moment mindfully And to look upon all beings With the eyes of kindness and …