Gratitude increases happiness.
One of the mindfulness exercises was to tell your mindfulness partner what you’re grateful for. My mindfulness partner is SS today. Yes, that means you.
Today I am grateful for a little girl who is in my life. She has vibrant brown eyes and beautiful braids. She is three years old. She is one of my resident’s granddaughters. Whenever she sees me she smiles rele big and screams, “Miss Tabitha”. Then, she hugs me soooo tight. Today she showed me her unicorn. It was pink! I went to the computer to see if I could print her out a coloring sheet and there was only a single template, and whatdoya know? It was a unicorn! Synchronicity! After that we practiced making shadows on the wall and played I spy. These are the times it’s okay to let the inner child out. Also, there are only two kinds of people I listen to without qualification, and that is children and old people. I feel love(d) when she and me have these encounters.
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11 responses to “Gratitude post?”
I am grateful that Immortal Pirate allowed me to start on the project to restore my Grandma’s table. We dusted it off and brought all the pieces in the house. I knew there would be hammering in putting it together, and that would make Mr. Left-brain PTSD go nuts. However, he went to WalMart to get water, two game hens, yams, and cookies.When he got back home, I had most all of the hammering done and he helped me put the leaves in it and squeeze it together.
There it is in the dining room right next to the Pirate Ship!!! This table has history in it. I used to sit under it with my cousins when I was a small child. We each sat on an eagle claw and ball foot and watched the adult’s legs as they sat around the table. This table was built in 1920, or so. I sit at it now and I remember where different family members used to sit. This table has been an important part of my life for all of my life. There are two mars in the finish of the table top, because it was on fire when my Mom’s house burnt down. I went into the burning house and picked up this monstrously heavy table — which was catching on fire —- and carried it out of the house. I rolled it on it’s side to show Mom that I saved it. She said, “My house burnt down and I am now homeless. What am I supposed to do with the table? Put it in my shopping basket and push it down the street? !!! IT WAS INSURED!!!” When I asked her where I should put it, she told me to shove it up my …… Well you know where.
I brought it to my California house and it was in my tea room for years. This table has been in my family since 1920’s and I am thankful to have it. Now, it sits on a big blue tarp to protect the floor as I refinish it. I need to sand it down to the raw wood, then re-stain it, and finish with a polyurethane coating. Yes, I know that it will take the value away from the antique, but I want it to be beautiful again and keep it for the rest of my life. I hate it when people take priceless antiques and paint them, making them worthless. I will be making this table almost worthless by re-finishing it. I am thankful to have it. This is my gratitude item.
@ladybarbara people can feel object attachment just as much as they can feel attachment to people. please post a pic of the table when it is completed
I am grateful for the ability to be grateful.
I can just take a breath and think about how lucky I am to be able to do that. I think about it when I lift a spoonful of soup. I sometimes wonder if I actually overdo it, but what the hell; there are worse things to go overboard on.
What am I most grateful for? Hmmmm…it has to be that I found a partner that I would literally trust with my life. I don’t think that is as common as I think it should be and I will never take it for granted.
@spitfire3dc no I doubt you overdo it, and your ability may well contribute to your ability to be content.
yes, I agree, I don’t think that is very common.
@Scarlett Here is the worn and ugly table as it is on the blue tarp with the Pirate Ship behind it.
If the solution to global thermal-runaway was to surgically bolt horns & wings on horses as transportation, but it gave the horses all sorts of horrible cramps all the time, would you,
A) Dose The Flying Horsie w/ Horse Pills
B) Get an organic ground Horse, now available at dealers near you
C) Ride a bike & try to cover up your human smell with patchouli oil
D)Get some sort of bus sized truck that has semi-truck exhaust that just spews out black tar and inky smoke that spraypaints everything black behind you with a Dukes of Hazzzard Horn blaring when you pull a cord hanging above you
E)Stay Home
We can get so busy (addicted?) looking for failings, disasters and shames . . . that even the abundance of good things around us can slip away unnoticed.
The surest way to rob someone of their treasures, is to get them all wound up, distracted and “protesting” something with a passion!
Like you, I cherish this group of people. Even @Weenis!
It’s not an easy thing to cherish and be grateful for the things in life that call on us to stretch and exercise . . . and grow stronger. But they are perhaps an even greater “gift” than someone cooing to us and massaging us in the place we have come to rest.
My thought is that both children and elders are far closer to “the great mystery” that is Life . . . to ply many of the games we “middlers” do when we feel a safe and rutted distance from it!
@griz cherish this group of people? Sure, I’ve made friends on here. Some of the people here are very special to me.
I do not have “negative” feelings for @Weenis. I don’t know the man.
what I do know is that you and I have a different belief system when it comes to humans and how we interact with them on the physical plane.
I am setting a boundary with @Weenis. he can respect it or not. if he doesn’t ,there will be a consequence.
im happy for you that you have evolved to where you feel like you want to be spiritually, but I think you may have a slight misconception about how you can help people. I think your efforts would be better served to pick fruit that is ripe, instead of trying to rush people’s processes.
@Scarlett
I may have been a different kind of student than you were too.
Some things I was so “ready” to learn that I would rush ahead of my instructors. But a lot of things — the things I found difficult– I often fancied myself “not ready for”: and did require some coaxing prodding and pushing.
But that may have just been my unique growth experience. And in hindsight, things I saw as pushing, I now see as invites.
i am grateful for the women who keep me in touch with other humans outside of work <3