What a Wonderful World!
Today is Thanksgiving in the US… where I’m originally from and where I still have family and many friends. To all USers, I hope you have had a delicious, warm holiday, full of connection, feasting, and gratitude. I was out on my bike today, musing about gratitude, and thanksgiving as I cycled along among the scarlet maple...
Thanksgiving, Gratitude, and Happiness…hmmm
In the kitchen this morning I was trying to take the plastic off a new organic yoghurt container, it didn’t come off smoothly, and I started to curse — aloud, since Mike was out for a while, off checking a neighbor’s mailbox. And then I changed to laughter, caught by surprise and sheepishness at how...
Thanksgiving and Gratitude
This past weekend Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving. It has taken me a while to accept the second weekend in October as the date for this fine event, but I have come to feel that the season of harvest fullness is every bit as appropriate, no, actually much more appropriate, than dreary and soggy, late November! We...
Thanks and Gratitude
As many in the US prepare for some form of Thanksgiving celebration (it is, I understand, the holiday for and on which more people travel to be together than any other, and the purpose is, ostensibly, to give thanks), I find myself reflecting on the theme of gratitude and thanks in general. The practice of...
