Gratitude Gobbler

I love drawing/praying my yearly gratitude turkey. The turkey is a visual journal of my life in the past twelve months. What I notice about my life in the past year is my tendency to be alone. This is not all bad. Keeping one’s own company and learning to...

Gratitude List Revisited

When I was sad or disgruntled as a kid, my mother used to say, “You sit down and write a list of all of the things you have to be grateful for.” It really irked me. I WAS a grateful kid but sometimes I wanted to just vent and be heard. As an adult I have...

Thanksgiving Turkey Prayer

Here is my 2011 Thanksgiving prayer. The turkey wasn’t large enough for all of my thanksgivings, so this is my Group Gratitude prayer. Most of the people I am grateful for fit into one of these groups. I’ve probably forgotten a few, so I’m imagining...