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The Flow of All Things
The shape of everything is flow. ~Richard Rohr Choose to See the Flow What possibilities open up for you when you choose to see the flow in all of life? In nature. In seasons. In relationships. In thoughts. In emotions. In love. I went to a talk last night and everything kept coming back to…
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Finding the Fun
Sometimes the easiest way to see it differently is to find something funny about it. It’s Not Funny. Or Is It? Some people are experts at finding the humor in situations that just aren’t funny. These people annoy me. Hahaha. But if I’m honest when I am feeling grounded and calm and at my best…
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Could Be Better Could Be Worse
Up and down. Down and up. Could be better. Could be worse. A Blessing from a Stranger at Walmart I very rarely go to Walmart. When I do it's usually very late at night when the other stores are closed. So just before midnight on Sunday night there I was walking the aisles of Walmart.…
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Heart of Gratitude in Service
How can I be of service to you? How can you be of service to others? Being of Service in a Transactional World This Monday was Martin Luther King, Jr Day and more specifically it was the Martin Luther King, Jr Day of Service. But what if we use our gratitude practice to inspire us…
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Reflecting With Gratitude
It’s so easy to look back and say last year was a shit year. But there was good in our lives too. Let’s raise that up. Documenting Our Highlight Reel Debra shared this inspiring quote in Our Gratitude Collective the other day: “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with…
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2017 Gratitude Anthology eBook
Download Your 2017 Gratitude Anthology eBook A Year of Gratitude Happy New Year! I have once again created an anthology of the 2017 gratitude images, quotes and prompts into a pdf ebook. It is quite different this year because there was a lot of shit that went down this year nationally and for…
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My Week of Rest
I am grateful to take good care of myself. Forced to Rest I have been forced to have so much rest due to illness. So just a quote, prompt and image for you this week. I hope you have been able to find gratitude each and every day. Whatever the present moment contains, accept…
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Not Saying Anything Negative About Anybody for Three Days
I caught myself about to talk shit about someone. If You Can't Say Anything Nice I started typing out a text that was being empathetic to the person I was texting but it was really judgmental and negative about our mutual friend. Luckily I paused before hitting send and reread it. I realized that this…
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Open to a New Way of Seeing
We are resilient. We are grateful. Take a Breath. Sink into This. What a year. It hasn't been the greatest. But here we all are. Resilient and often grateful. Through the darkness we trekked. Through the pain we grew. Through the loneliness we found each other. We are here. With a new way of seeing.…
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Gratitude Can Help Uphold Your Boundaries
How do you respond to an apology? Teaching People How To Treat You Setting personal boundaries is really tough. On some level all of us know how we want to be treated by others. But knowing it is only the foundation. We also have to communicate these boundaries and then honor them. I have been…
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Practicing Gratitude Without Attachment
Grateful for nothing in particular and everything all at once. Searching For Something That is There I sat down last night to write down the three things I was grateful for. Doing a mental inventory of my day searching for things I appreciated. Last night was one of the easy days. I was grateful for…
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Today We Are Full of Thanks
Some gratitude questions to share around the table today. There’s Nothing Like Authentic Gratitude Sharing I hope your Thanksgiving is full of people you love sharing each other’s presence and love. As you enjoy each other I hope you also share from the heart about what you are grateful for. Here are some gratitude questions…
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The Way That Song Makes Me Feel
Let’s celebrate the music of our lives. The Feelings. The Memories. Thank You, Music. Oh music. You touch us all. You make us feel. You remind us of joyous and heart-wrenching times gone by. Each and every one of us appreciate music. Which connects us all. Today I would like to celebrate music and the…
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Don’t Be Blinded by Gratitude
Not everything is beautiful. In what ways does seeing the darkness of the world bring you hope? Seeing the Darkness and Finding Hope As I mourn yet another mass shooting I am reflecting on being grateful but not ONLY being grateful. I would hate for a gratitude practice to be blinders to seeing the tragedies…
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Notice the Beauty of Nature
Nature makes you pay attention this time of year. The Call of Nature On Saturday I was rushing all day from obligations to a friend and family and home. All things I am full of appreciation for but because I was rushing and busy I wasn’t present. At one point in the day I was…
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Fall Gratitude Walk
A walk outdoors to deliberately take in moments of beauty. Gratitude Found Take a walk with me as we explore nature and the outdoors. We find gratitude in unexpected places. And remind ourselves to be grateful for things that are easy to take for granted. We explore the concept of unattachment, noticing, appreciating and letting…
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Breathing is Enough
Me too. Let’s just take a breath together. Letting Ourselves Off the Hook of Gratitude I’ve been writing a series of these about difficult times and grief. After last week I declared that to be the last of the series and I would move to more positive and feel good topics. But then “me too”…
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A Poem of Blessings for Times of Grief
These words. Like a soothing bubble bath for your soul. Beannacht, the Gaelic Word for Blessings by John O'Donohue On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The gray window And the ghost of loss Gets in…
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In Outrage and in Gratitude
Don’t cover your eyes to it. Don’t ignore it. Take care of yourself too. Being Grateful When The World is So Fucked Up Gratitude ≠ Happiness Darkness is not a lack of gratitude. Authentic gratitude comes from looking at the world with eyes wide open. It is not protected behind blinders – ignoring the horrors…
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I Thought It Was a Good Luck Spell
Ha! I am not a gratitude witch after all. I Said Thank You Because I Wanted More You’d think I have this gratitude thing figured out by now after six years of this daily practice. But that’s why this is called a practice. There is no point of arriving. It is all becoming. Becoming grateful.…