Here we are again, friends. We are meandering toward the end of a very challenging week and we don’t know what to think, say, feel or do. Of course, if you watch TV or any cable news shows you would find that hard to believe. But you are all old enough now to know that…
Category: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday: Sunrise Faith
Even though our 100 Days of Happiness and our outward effort to cultivate joy and gratitude is over doesn’t mean it’s stopped for us privately. As we’ve mentioned and most of you likely know since you are, you know, out in the world living, that it’s not for sissies. Being grateful can sometimes be grueling….
Thankful Thursday: Getting Through Tough Times
Nobody likes difficult days. In fact, we dread them. Sometimes we go to sleep knowing that the next day will bring our own kind of misery and often they turn out to not be nearly as bad as we had imagined. Other times, we wake up hopeful and one thing after another continues to go…
Thankful Thursday: Thank God, Universe for Having My Back
If you are lucky, on occasion, a piece of music, a book, a phone call, or a lecture comes to you at exactly the right time. On Wednesday afternoon, I took the time while out walking to listen to a presentation by Gabrielle Bernstein as part of the Sounds True Self-Acceptance Summit. Already you can…
Thankful Thursday: Singing Hallelujah & Amen
As G and I have written many times over these last 99 days; happiness has been a little harder to come by this year. Hence the yearly experiment to actually find the joy, happiness and gratitude each and every day for 100 straight days. During any 100-day period there is going to be struggle. The…
Thankful Thursday: 8 Days
Apparently, I am on a two-week positivity cycle. I can only keep my happiness streak going for 14 days before it gets side-tracked by politics, illness and hurricanes. At the two-week mark, I start wanting to wallow around in my sweatpants, watching families rescued from the rising floodwaters. BUT…we have 8 more days of…