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Thankful Thursday (8)

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Earth produces no viler creature than an ingrate. ~Publius Syrus, Latin writer of maxims (first century BCE)

Time to find something to be grateful for again! Did you know expressing gratitude can improve sleep and immunity? Did you know it can decrease anxiety, chronic pain, and disease? Aren’t these good enough reasons to start looking for things to appreciate?

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Red, orange, yellow

Farewell to glorious Fall

Trees are now just sticks

Note: Happy Thanksgiving to all my blogging buddies! I’m taking a bit of time off to feast and rest, and thus I’m closing comments on this one. Enjoy the last of our Fall color (seven slides in all).

A “Tiny” Break

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Good things, when short, are twice as good. ~Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit and Baroque prose writer and philosopher

My Tiny Tree now measures 7 1/2 feet!! It looks healthy and seems to want for nothing. How it manages to look so cool and collected in this blazing heat and humidity baffles me.

It’s time for a wee blogging break. I’ve turned off comments for this post and will be back soon. Have a safe, joyous Fourth of July!

This Christmas

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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer

To be a child at Christmastime!
To once again behold this world
With awe. And joy. And hope. And love.

Or to be an adult at Christmastime!
Shopping for gifts and wrapping them, too.
Cooking the meal, cleaning up, and sneaking a nap.

Or to be a bush at Christmastime!
Covered in white, listening to the universe.
Perhaps shivering a bit under the snow.

Note: Whatever your role this holiday season, I wish you and yours a most blessed Christmas, with a happy and healthy 2021 to come! I’m taking a wee blogging break — back soon.