Not much way to track both halves of this, so just post your gratitude list in response to this. But the idea of the actual challenge is to post a gratitude list every day for the month of November (what's left of it) AND still create your regular list. Posting your gratitude list will keep your streak going, but they really have two different purposes. So play along, honor system. I'll start.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. - Roger Ebert
I am grateful for my Emotions because....
My mind deceives me frequently or is deceived by other people. My emotions ride along and if I'm paying attention, they tell me the truth.
Gratitude list for 11 Nov. 2022.
He could have been one of those folks going in to the beaches on D-Day. Instead he was captured at the Battle of Anzio and spent 16 months in a German POW camp. It was harrowing, but it probably saved his life.
Challenge and idea list from this will post tomorrow.
List for 9 November 2022
This is my longest day each week. I should be in bed already to get ready for early day tomorrow. Whatever.
Amazing when you think about it. Just drive in, give them a few dollars, and you have hot food you can eat in your car.
For 7 November 2022.
This is just for me, after all. I hope anyone participating in the challenge worries less about the technicalities of the challenge and just focuses on the benefits of daily gratitude.
Today, I am grateful for joy....
Joy is like the bubbles in champagne.
Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri
To Love Beauty is to see Light - Victor Hugo
I am grateful for beauty...
When I see a beautiful flower I stop and take a picture.
Challenge accepted! I am grateful for being healthy...
A gratitude list is a powerful tool to help shift your focus from negative to positive. By taking the time to write down what you're grateful for, you're training your brain to notice the good in your life.
Today, I am grateful for...having something to hope for:
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama
To live without Hope is to Cease to live. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Three months ago, I was struggling to find something to hope for. Things are very dark (thanks Captain Obvious!). Even if you're ok with how the world is trending toward fascism and dictators, it still doesn't look that great from an economic perspective.
Somewhere I read a quote that said that hope is a discipline (-Mariame Kaba). I vibed with that idea because I have found that many things that were good for me could only be achieved through discipline. So I began to think that I needed to work on having things to hope for. Take some action.
....so that when I retire I can have something to do other than goof off. I need to have projects and goals.
The number in the title is a computer-friendly way of showing the date: YYMMDD. That keeps them sorted alphabetically in actual chronological order.
It has been so long since I played, I actually lost my calluses. That was unthinkable until the last few years. I have been wanting a nylon-string guitar for awhile to ease my way back in, since playing the steel-string guitars I already have is too painful. My wonderful wife took me to a guitar store last night and we came home with one. Yay!
List for 4 November 2022.
This is amazing when you stop and think about it, but most of the time I don't. How much does this add not only to the quality of life, but human flourishing in general?
