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The Year of Gratitude: February 2009
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The Year of Gratitude. Sunday, February 8, 2009. Gratitude for its own sake. I complained that I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.". When I was a boy my father would share that nugget with me as a gentle reminder to appreciate what I had. It's good wisdom. Leaving aside that I know there are things I. Do, there's no lasting gratitude available in the "there but for the grace of god go I" game. Better still I think just to be grateful, because. Because why? Links to this post. I Am No Expert.
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The Year of Gratitude: The Sleeping Angels
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The Year of Gratitude. Saturday, March 7, 2009. This morning I am grateful to the deepest part of my soul for the gift of their peaceful sleep. I'll sleep too some night. Until then, I can peek in on the Doodlebug, safe with her books and her stuffed friends, and I can feel Linda's familiar arm pulling me closer as she settles from a dream. The Meaning of Existence (and all that). A Rogue's World : life, love and the tech that glues it together. I Am No Expert. Subscribe To The Year of Gratitude.
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The Year of Gratitude: December 2008
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The Year of Gratitude. Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Getting Ready to Launch. For the past two weeks or so I have been thinking a lot about starting this blog. I've told a few friends about it, a few family members and a very few colleagues. I've wondered about why I'm doing this. The short answer is that I don't know why. I'm just following a small inner voice that kept whispering to me to be grateful and to be public about it. For many years I have said that my only true desire in life is to make a diffe...
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The Year of Gratitude: Courage Wanted: Inquire Within
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The Year of Gratitude. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Courage Wanted: Inquire Within. It is entirely clear to me that what is happening today is the birth of opportunity. This morning I stumbled across the 2006 Edelman Trust Barometer. A survey that measures influential people's trust in business, government, media, and NGOs. In that year, trust had largely recovered from the scandals of the early 2000s. Then I found this report of the 2009 study. Opportunity is hammering at our door right now. The peop...
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The Year of Gratitude: March 2009
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The Year of Gratitude. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. It ain't about platitudes. One version of the story goes that twin boys awoke on their birthday to entirely different gifts: one was led outside and handed the reins to a beautiful horse, and the other to a stall in the barn where he was given a shovel. The first boy looked at his father and said, "how am I supposed to care for this animal? And that, they say, is the difference between an optimist and a pessimist. Of course, though, there's a real tension b...
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The Year of Gratitude: January 2009
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The Year of Gratitude. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Courage Wanted: Inquire Within. It is entirely clear to me that what is happening today is the birth of opportunity. This morning I stumbled across the 2006 Edelman Trust Barometer. A survey that measures influential people's trust in business, government, media, and NGOs. In that year, trust had largely recovered from the scandals of the early 2000s. Then I found this report of the 2009 study. Opportunity is hammering at our door right now. The peop...
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The Year of Gratitude: June 2009
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The Year of Gratitude. Friday, June 19, 2009. Is there a gap between being grateful and owning your life? If you recognize that people, circumstances, and forces beyond your control have contributed to your experience of life, are you by definition denying that you are the author of your own story? Links to this post. Saturday, June 13, 2009. Just the other day. During 2007 I led our family through two cross-country relocations, partly through ambition, partly through circumstance, partly through neglige...
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The Year of Gratitude: Just the other day
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The Year of Gratitude. Saturday, June 13, 2009. Just the other day. During 2007 I led our family through two cross-country relocations, partly through ambition, partly through circumstance, partly through negligence, and largely through great luck. I do not recommend this to anyone. The fact that our marriage survived is more a tribute to my wife and daughter's patience than to anything I did; mostly I screwed a lot of stuff up. Then it struck me. At the core of each of these thoughts was an indisput...