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Terry Freedman's avatar

I've got this theme scheduled to write about on Monday (I'm a Brit, so thanksgiving doesn't count!).

I am grateful that things are not as bad as they could be

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

Exactly...soooo much worse. I'll check out your post!

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Thanks Jennifer. It will include a link to yours of course

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TK Eldridge's avatar

I'm grateful for a warm home and enough food that I'm able to share it. That hasn't always been the case.

I'm grateful for friends and family that brighten my life.

I'm grateful for a new career that makes me excited to get up in the morning and hurry across the house to my office and get started.

There is so much I appreciate in my life and in the world around me.

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

Nice TK, and welcome into Flight School

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Nathan Slake's avatar

I am grateful for Substack (and Terry F) because it lets me discover posts such as these that let me pause for a moment and be still and think.

I'm grateful for the thick jumper I brought with me to work today, because the air-conditioning in my office is for some reason blasting too much cold air.

I'm grateful for my parents, with whom I had a rather emotional conversation with yesterday and their love and support was just unconditionally amazing.

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

love this: I'm grateful for the thick jumper I brought with me to work today, because the air-conditioning in my office is for some reason blasting too much cold air.

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Laurel Anderson's avatar

I am grateful,

- for the food before us

- the friends around us

- the love between us

- and the presence of spirit among us.

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

Hi stranger! I hope your move is going well. You are missed.

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april's avatar

So grateful that the tears of grace spring up as I arrive safely after a long drive from Oregon to LA to be with family. Thankful to contemplate a delicious meal cooked by one talented son and be allowed to stay in the cool downtown apartment of another talented son. Grateful for the grace of being in this world as heartbreakingly beautiful and broken as it is.

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

So glad ur safe!

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

And charged!!!

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Karen Lynne Klink's avatar

So much to be grateful for I cannot begin to make a list. My spiritual path would go at the top because it enables everything else and enables me to deal with all the negativeness in today's world.

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

Exactly. And faith isn't easy to talk about well and to share well without seeming...what? Like a zealot? So...we are fully in alignment. Gratitude is everyday, all day, right next to love. Welcome into Flight School.

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Lori Henriksen's avatar

I am grateful for my own healing—mind, body, and spirit—that is always in progress. I am grateful for my partner of many years who has shared and experienced the rocky path with me. I am grateful for you and others who have had the courage to shine light on the isolation of childhood trauma. I am grateful to be alive (even through these difficult times) at the stage of life Erikson calls Integrity vs. Despair. I choose integrity. Namaste

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

I like that, Lori. Despair is lurking and sometimes I will feel it, but not for long. Despair is not an option. Heads up, always. I'm thankful to have you here. 💗

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j.e. moyer, LPC's avatar

I’m grateful that I’ve lived long enough to gain some understanding of the surreal absurdly imperfect universe into which I was born.

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

All good stuff. Yes. And gratitude to you for being with us, John.

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Patricia Boynton's avatar

I am grateful for what remains. I can't change what I lost. Believe me, if I could find the keys to that elusive Time Machine, I would be diving back, not forward. But I can only look at all I have--most of my family, my funny corgi, my health, my dear friends, and the opportunity to study and grow at Blackbird. What more could I ask? World peas?

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

Ha ha. World peas. I know it’s so hard, too, but I’m so grateful for you and your wry humor and your amazing craft. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 🥰

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