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#ThankfulThursday

Thanksgiving 2017: Seal of Approval

November 23, 2017 by Melodye Shore

I created these seal-y images for you, dear readers, with gratitude for our wide-ranging conversations and deepening friendships. Feel free to download & share the memes on social media.

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#ThankfulThursday: Everyday blessings and another birthday

November 16, 2017 by Melodye Shore

“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful.

They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness —

Just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breathe it;

Just warmth and shelter and home folks;

Just plain food that gives us strength;

The bright sunshine on a cold day;

And a cool breeze when the day is warm.”

(Words of wisdom by Laura Ingalls Wilder, photographs from my grateful heart.)

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#ThankfulThursday: “A fierce and enduring gratitude”

October 26, 2017 by Melodye Shore

Let us meet just slightly west and south of a place called despair.

It is a place that does not turn away from difficulty or fierceness. And yet it is also a place of paradoxical gratitude, where images, metaphors, powerful language and practices of grateful living combine to bring about moments of belonging, grace and yes, even joy. —Dale Biron

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#ThankfulThursday: Finding wonders

October 19, 2017 by Melodye Shore

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders. –E.B. White

Turban Snail shell in Goff Island Cove, Laguna Beach.

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