Being thankful, grateful, etc... VERY important. It is the basis for joy and/or happiness. SO - what am I grateful for? Or what am I thankful for? To whom do I give thanks?
Being grateful/thankful for me ... is the realization - sometimes/often -- being thankful, being grateful... is very possible for me. I had a pretty good life. Life is now pretty good. I have daughters and some other family. I have friends and acquaintences. I do things I like doing - such as singing and working out and traveling. I'm fairly healthy and I have some knowledge and some wisdom. I am able to bless and I am blessed. Bottom lines - I'm ok and even better than ok.
AND that is what I am thankful for and what I say this year and think I could have said that last year, too, and for most/all of the years of my life!
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about the shutdown ... and supporting Democrats...
I am on Social Security and I have a pension, too...SO the shutdown didn't directly effect me ... nor did it seem to effect my daughters (though education IS threatened!!!). Therefore - my thinking the Democrats should have hung in there and not caved to the Republicans is a strong thought and feeling but one I can't fully embrace for the sake of those who were going without! Rock and hard place ... NOW Affordability is an issue. Fairness should be an issue, too. Justice, too, for sure!!! And honesty and integrity ... YET I do not know if the Democrats will really put all that out there coherently and effectively. SO - I wait before contributing to their coffers!
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