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Tag Archives: gratitude
Personalizing My Semicolon Tattoo
Before I got my first tattoo, I could not figure out why someone would want one, let alone several. Now that I’ve had my own tat for several weeks, I’m starting to understand a bit about the why. While I … Continue reading
Posted in Family, General Sharing, Tattoos, Writing
Tagged cat tattoo, family, Gatewood, Goals, God, gratitude, Green, letter G, Love, semicolon tattoo, symbols, tat, writing
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Let Me Motivate You
This is a very moving, very human, and very wise use of gratitude to overcome the stuff that can bring us down if we let it. Kudos to A THOMAS for this inspiring piece. Let Me Motivate You by A. … Continue reading
Posted in General Sharing, Inspiration, reblogged
Tagged character, family, gratitude, hope, inspiration, overcoming troubles, perseverance, suffering
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Gratitude: A Companion to Kindness | A Year of Living Kindly
This excellent article appeared recently and I really intended to share it with you before Thanksgiving, but life got in the way. In any case, it is well worth reading as it shows how gratitude and kindness go hand-in-hand. Kudos … Continue reading
Posted in Doing Good Works, General Sharing, reblogged
Tagged doing good work, gratitude, how to live, kindness, self-improvement
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Gratitude and Letting Go
I posted articles here recently about journaling and the idea that really sparked those for me was a comment about a gratitude journal. I started one, only mine had to be different, so it’s a gratitude and letting go journal, … Continue reading
Posted in General Sharing, Rants and Raves, Writing
Tagged anger, annoyance, bad parker, gratitude, gratitude journal, hospital, journal, Kroger, Kroger employee, letting go, nursing home, rage, Wife
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An Idea Bank for Writers
One of the things that distinguishes writers from non-writers is that writers will often have notebooks, scraps of paper, and other places full of thoughts (because the thoughts simply must be written down before they escape or before the writer’s … Continue reading
Posted in General Sharing, Writing
Tagged #amwriting, #Writing101, gratitude, idea bank, journal, journaling, letting go, one sentence per day, quotes, writer's block, writing
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