If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.
It will change your life mightily.
~Gerald Good

Day V - My HealthThis was impressed upon me by several things in the last week ( Read more... )

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French

Day VI - My ComputerI'm not far enough away yet from that whole month and half away from my computer, that I'm not still a little giddy every time I get to pick up my laptop ( Read more... )

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Day V - Comfort ObjectsThese notes kind of go to both The Opals & Li, which isn't so much a gratitude to them as it is a gratitude to their example ( Read more... )

All that we behold is full of blessings.
~William Wordsworth

Day V - Reformed Congregation of the GoddessHow could I ever -- back in my early twenties, hand in hand with Christine, that day, feeling out of place near so many women and cringing at someone saying 'a-woman' instead of 'amen' -- known that I had stumbled on the group that would ( Read more... )

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought;
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
~G.K. Chesterton

Day IV - Glamourkin

I honestly had no idea what today's would be, and then I got to the mailbox, and my Glamourkin's (LJ: glamourkin / Etsy) from the Happy Halloween release were in the mailbox. This always makes me so ( Read more... )

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like
wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward

Day III. My Little Sister This is another that is set by its day. Today is the anniversary of my sister's death (and my father's birthday). Fourteen years ago. The numbers keep growing, and though I know how time and math work, somehow it ( Read more... )

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
~George Colman

Day II. My Economical Self-Worth

I wrote in a twitter today that another new person freaked today when they realized my contract still ends on December 3rd. And once, again, said they'd be talking to my boss. Third or fourth person in the last week and half. And while that makes my heart ( Read more... )

I'm a day late, but according to the lovely tinylegacies' post from yesterday there are exactly forty days to Thanksgiving. So for every day (or near it, I'm not making this rigid, so some may get stacked due to life coming up) I'm going to write about the things I'm grateful for ( Read more... )