About Being Grateful
Actually, my goal is to be grateful more often. So far I haven’t found pep talks about gratitude or suggestions about gratitude practices to be helpful. It all depends upon how willing I am to receive comfort or direction. Having been pushed around too much as a kid, often I have resistance to suggestions, and I don’t let them in. (Yes, I know I can get in my own way: I’m working on it!) When I am disappointed, sad, angry or pessimistic, the last think I want to hear is a message about how I could or should feel better.
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Amazing Grace Despite Everything
It’s remarkable that a song like Amazing Grace, with such a simple, repetitive melody never gets boring. It’s a chant, really, with a hypnotic magnetism that can be personalized by anyone who sings it. “Amazing Grace and the News” is my variation of this classic prayer. You could probably figure this out yourself, but my…
Pugs Thrive on the South Dakota Plains!
Some things are so surprising that you can’t make them up. True story: my daughter and her husband had two birth children, adopted five Haitian kids, moved to rural South Dakota while she went to online law school, she continued to work full time for an international adoption agency, she gradually became an expert in…
You Gotta Talk to Me
Sometimes I like to fantasize that people could be reconfigured to have little meters in their foreheads, not to download information, but to register how many words in a day each one says. If I could put a bet on something that would make me big money, I would bet than women’s daily word counts…
Susan Rose: Singing Grandma 