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Gratitude: Today, I'm grateful for...
Studies have found that expressing daily gratitude improves both physical and emotional well-being. It helps us focus on what is good in our lives, the world and others. It also helps us find the silver lining in our challenges. Gratitude turns what we already have into enough. Gratitude brings us joy. I’d love it if you can share something you’re grateful for today. I’ll start.
I’m grateful I have both the ability and luxury of taking long daily gratitude walks through the beautiful nature that surrounds my home.
I’ll take you through my typical walk:
When I open my front door to leave, I’m usually greeted by a few adorable squirrels, three crow friends, juncos and wrens who all hope for a walnut treat before I go. My walk along the creek down the street brings me peace with a variety of 100-foot trees, flowers of every shape and color, grass, fascinating wildlife, sounds of a babbling brook, birds calling, squirrels chasing, etc. Each day, I also see bunnies, ducks with ducklings, egrets, lizards, turtles, a variety of small birds, butterflies, and sometimes coyotes and hawks.
I meet new people along the way as we share our love of nature. I am also greeted by their happy, adorable dogs. Sometimes I learn something new. Sometimes I feel like I was able to bring joy to someone by letting them know they are worth a few minutes of my time. That brings me joy. Half the people in my large retirement community live alone as I do. Today, I met a lovely 96-year-old woman who walks a half mile with her cane and sweet rescue poodle every day. Impressive! She didn’t look a day over 80. I never miss an opportunity to smile and say hello to everyone who passes by. When I arrive home after an hour or so, some of my wildlife buddies are usually there to welcome me back with the enthusiasm of a dog.
When my last dog went to Heaven a few months ago, my camera became my new walking companion. Once I’m home, it’s time to upload my latest nature photos. I relive my walk all over again through the eyes of a zoom lens and a 32” monitor that together reveal extraordinary colors, patterns, textures and wildlife expressions the naked eye can’t see. I’m sharing a few pix from today. Can’t wait to go again tomorrow! 🙂
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I am thankful everyday for being blessed with the opportunity to live. A life worth living! Fate or a higher power it seems has placed positive sign posts along my journey of life! I’m not perfect,, I’ve had failures, but the triumph’s have far outweighed them!!!
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4 ReactionsToday I am grateful for:
Some better sleep
Work to keep my mind busy
A couple of baby rabbits on the lawn
Some blooming flowers in the yard
We just had a storm and this morning the air was so fresh and clear...
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4 ReactionsToday I am grateful for:
just being alive
some better sleep
saw a ground hog on my front lawn
cat
Joni Mitchell video on You Tube
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6 ReactionsToday, I am just grateful for another chance. Been living with so many medical problems, I am actually surprised to still find myself here and alive today.
Wishing everyone out there, the very best.
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5 ReactionsToday, I am grateful for solving a computer problem that had been driving me nuts!
I was upgrading memory in my phones & such, and kept getting write-protect errors on SD cards. I could not figure it out! I even tried editing the registry in Windows to force the write protect off; didn't work.
Finally, I tried massive repetition. I learned that my computer's SD slot isn't working properly. Plus, I did have a couple of bad Micro SD cards.
I didn't know how much this had been bugging me until I solved it. I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Hopefully I'll sleep better now.
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5 ReactionsToday I am grateful for another day on this planet, for the Surgeons, Doctors, Nurses, and Tech’s at Mayo Clinic Jax who have given me that Gift! Most of all I am grateful for my lung donor, their family’s sacrifice, and my wife who is my Caregiver!! Without all of this tomorrow was uncertain.
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6 Reactionswhenever I have a computer problem, which is often, I rely on my younger family member, I am always grateful for his assistance. However I am signing up for a computer class at the local library. Nothing like figuring out problems on my own. So looking forward to becoming more computer savvy.
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4 ReactionsThe best to ALL. No one does anything alone. Thanks for sharing.
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3 ReactionsRabbits on my lawn always make me happy!
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7 ReactionsI get it Scott! Technology is great - until it's not. Those niggling problems can take so long to solve, and the more complex everything gets, the harder some issues are to solve.
I have a mangled laptop sitting in my husband's workroom, waiting until one of us has the time to remove the hard drive and hook it to another device so I can make sure I retrieved everything I need from my backups before we reformat it.
Then he can work his magic and pull all the recyclable parts out before the case goes in the trash.
I have trouble keeping track of all those tiny SIM cards and what they belong to - and even more, getting them into or out of slots or devices with my tremor.
Glad you found your solution. Did you get rid of the bad SIM cards so you never have to repeat this exercise?
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