The Doorway Into Thanks
I've posted this poem before. I still love it. And am taking the liberty to do it again. Praying It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. --Mary Oliver

Wordless Wednesday: The Joker
"Mommy....The Joker wears purple lipstick and is a man."

Bring on the "morphine-like substances"
I've been wanting to do a post--or do a series of posts--this month that was really apropos of Thanksgiving. So I’ve been reading Thanks! by Robert Emmons, and then earlier this week, I did a major impulse buy at the checkout line and bought the current issue of Spirituality and Health because “GRATITUDE: 17 practices for our times” was sprawled across the font cover. The book and the magazine article are both insightful and encouraging reads. Buuuuuuuuhhhhtt… the truth is…I could write a dissertation on gratitude (and all the benef

Wordless Wednesday: Things Found in Dishwasher

Thank You Veterans
The Huffington Post published a list of Veteran's Day quotes today. Here's a few on gratitude: "We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." -Cynthia Ozick "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy "When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?" -George Canning I posted a link to the article on Facebook. A friend of mine in the military pointed out the poignancy of this one: "In war, the