Gratitude for Friends

Friends at The Owl, New Preston, CT

I saw a quote today on the pages of my Gratitude Journal. (As an aside, I really recommend a gratitude journal to help you increase your gratitude for the good things in life, especially in light of not-so-good experiences that we all inevitably have.) I like the quote, so I’m sharing with you.

“Gratitude among friends is like credit among tradesmen: it keeps business up, and maintains commerce. And we pay not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we might the more easily find lenders on another occasion.”

–Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist

I am grateful for my friends and try to tell them. For whom are you grateful?

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Use Your Freedom for Kindness

Art @ Washington Primary School 

On this Independence Day, when we celebrate our rights and freedoms, all of which were hard fought and won (thank you to those who fought for our freedom), I’d like to propose that we use our rights to free speech, to free assembly, to free association to spread kindness. Be kind to others. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to animals. Be kind to the earth. Be independent. Be free. Be kind.

 

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Happy Dad Day!

To all the great dads out there, Happy Father’s Day. As a grown up daughter who is now appreciative even though I wasn’t so as a teenager, you are loved, important, and appreciated! Go Dads!

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What Is Love?

I’m curious. If you had to describe the feeling of love, how would you describe it?

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