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Gratitude Discussion Group
Hi everyone! Just before Thanksgiving @michellegraffradford posted a blog called Gratitude Changes Everything. She suggested three techniques to help incorporate gratitude into our daily lives:
- Start the Day with Gratitude (before getting up think of three people you are grateful for)
- Maintain a Gratitude Journal to record times when you are grateful
- Count Blessings – not sheep! (Review the day and remember moments of gratitude)
Her blogpost was so inspiring that a lot of us decided we wanted to form a Gratitude Group to keep the attitude of gratitude going. The blogpost area is not an ideal space for a big discussion group so I am moving the discussion over here to the “Just Want to Talk” Group. Let’s use this space to share and discuss our Gratitude Journey. I’m going to suggest that we each try to take a minute from the day and post here what has made us feel thankful today. It can be as small as a stranger’s smile on the bus or as large as fulfilling a major life dream – or anywhere in between. We can also discuss how we are doing with the three techniques. Sometimes it is easier to form new habits with support from others.
Michelle's full blogpost is at the link below. You may want to review it or print it out to help get started!
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/page/living-with-mild-cognitive-impairment-mci/newsfeed/gratitude-changes-everything/
I look forward to hearing from others in the Gratitude Group and to having others join us here! Thanks to those who already shared great stories. If you haven't yet, what gratitude will you share today?!
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! Grateful to celebrate another Christmas.
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9 Reactions@parus Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your meaningful artwork with us. Hoping your holiday is also great and you get to share with your son and his family.
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4 Reactions@parus WOW!! You are so talented! Is this called Black Capped Chickadee?
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3 ReactionsYes, these are Chickadees. Thanks for asking and the kudos.
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4 Reactions@parus, I'm grateful for your presence with us in this Connect community and you sharing your beautiful artwork with us! I hope 2020 is a good year for you with peace, joy and lots of art!
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Hello my chickadee....I just saw this....Beautiful!
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Hi Mary, I’ve been rather subdued since my Mom passed but thinking of you seems to help cheer me up. I haven’t noticed any unusual Entrées lately but you manage enough of those on your own. However this wine just happened to catch my eye and I thought of you. Of course being the Connoisseur you are you’re probably already familiar with it from one of your high tone wine magazines. But just in case you missed it, Rice wine with the greenish-black bile taken from the gallbladder of a freshly sliced cobra. Well, is your mouth watering? I thought it would be. Maybe it would go good with some nice fresh alligator, you think? So, should I over night it to you so you can enjoy it with dinner tomorrow?
Take care,
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Hi Leonard.
First let me say that I had no idea of your mom’s fall and her passing in November. I never read any of the Caregiver posts and didn’t know about your mother’s behavior or even about you and your trip to the hospital. I am truly sorry to hear about all this. I was wondering why you were so silent lately. You got some good insight about mom’s behavior . I hope you know that none of it was personal and that she still loved you and was grateful for your constant support. How she reacted is so common among the elderly especially when they have suffered some recent health issue. It could have been the result of early dementia as many mentioned.
Be happy knowing you did everything you could for her and I know all the neglected and unwanted people in our nursing homes and assisted facilities would have traded places with her. Her loss is a big void in your life.
Now for the rice wine with cobra...I had to read about that and there are 3 types of snake wine...wine with bile from the gallbladder, wine with blood from the still beating heart of a snake, or a whole live cobra that they either bludgeoned to death or let it drown in the wine. Sounds like a horror story to me.
You won’t be surprised to learn that I have had fried alligator bits. Fried alligator is served in many restaurants in the south and here in Florida,I see it on the menu occasionally at a sports bar type of restaurant. I try to avoid fried food but someone ordered some a good while back as an appetizer....was kind of chewy...would rather have fried calamari (squid). It’s a very lean meat high in protein. I was going to say I had it smoked also but that was snake....very tasty.
It’s illegal to feed alligators and also to kill them without permission. Up to five years in jail or $5000 fine. We can’t feed them but they can feed us.
Feeling hungry now?
I’m here for ya...Florida Mary
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