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on the day after thanksgiving day.

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lounging with leftovers 

(this is not me, but we share a similar attitude and approach to the day after)

 

“rest and be thankful.”

-william wordsworth

 

 

 

image credit: borders of adventure, china

 

enough.

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on this day of thanksgiving, i am grateful for having enough.

“enough is as good as a feast.”

-joshua sylvester

 

 

 

credit: beautiful feast created by the kinder

on thanksgiving.

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“i am thankful for every moment.”

-al green

image credit: napkin party

thank you.

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“I made this thank you note. I’m going to give it to my family.”

“what are you thanking them for?”

“I’m going to thank them for being my family.”

 

“if the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

*Meister Eckhart

 

 

*Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher, and mystic.

thankful.

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“gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.

thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.

thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”

-henry van dyke 

happy thanksgiving and much gratitude to all

 

 

 

image credit: ida bohatta (children’s book illustrator and author)

find something.

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here was what I found:

  1. a fairy house in the woods
  2. a handful of wildflowers
  3. a pine bough
  4. birds
  5. meadow grass
  6. quiet beauty
  7. a heart-shaped stone
  8. stone steps to sit on and watch the river

what have your found that you are grateful for?

 

 

 

image credit: simpleacres

perpetual.

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“i am grateful for what I am and have. my thanksgiving is perpetual.”

-henry david thoreau

 

 

image credit: faerie magazine

thanks.

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my friends are my estate. – emily dickinson

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with deepest gratitude.

“i  cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.”

-charles r. swindoll

image credit: pinterest, 1930s long island

thanksgiving.

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image credit: blue moon