Category: Joy In Your Spirit

Glad, elated, thankful

Overwhelmed with gratitude?

Delivering Food For Families
Yesterday was the 16th year of this Thanksgiving morning tradition.

 

Delivering Food For Families
After receiving the addresses for which you will deliver to, you pull up to load two boxes per family.

 

Delivering Food For Families
Like many other marketing campaigns, it’s difficult to reach enough people.

 

Overwhelmed with gratitude?

How can anyone not be?

Official American holidays like yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day are great reminders to be thankful for all that we have.

And then my brain wonders (and wanders) and i quietly ponder this, “Why do we need official, National reminders?”

 

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A debt of gratitude list

Le Westin Montreal lobby sign
The date, time, and place stamped on the digital lobby sign.

 

Old Harbor Montreal
The small yellow image, a walker, caught my eye.

 

Montreal war veteran memorial.
Closer inspection revealed a military tribute monument. Two days prior was Remembrance Day (Veteran’s Day in America).

 

Teddy Bear in Montreal airport
An airport tradition for a decade or more.

 

Freedom Tower from JFK tarmac.
Freedom Tower from JFK tarmac yesterday.

 

A debt of gratitude:

To my wife, for covering the home front, solo, for three days.

To our son, for, well, just being a son, and a studious ninth-grader.

To Lee Cockerell, for his referral; otherwise there would not have been a Montreal trip.

To Manon Richard for being a superb event planner. Superb.

To Michel for guiding me the entire day and having me want for nothing. Remarkable.

To Westin and Delta for doing what they do so well.

To our Military, for providing safe passage in North America.

To God, for the blessing of having a purposeful way to contribute to society.

Editor’s note: The above list was started yesterday during a two-hour layover at JFK airport. Little did i know as i wrote about “safe passage in North America” that hours later tragedy would hit Paris.

 

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There’s a reason you felt that way

Disney University
Yesterday, a water station.

 

You felt a certain way the last time you did something that was brave, generous, and important.

There’s a reason for that.

 

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Expecting magnificent?

Mountain cabin morning view from bedroom
A college buddy’s North Carolina mountain top cabin.

 

The first thing we see each day is relatively unchanging because of our routine. Break our routine, break what we see.

And with a different view, we can easily see differently.

Our expectations on what we see are also prone to habitual repetition.

This is what i saw after opening my eyes this morning from the second floor loft. Arrived last night at 10pm. Expected it to be magnificent.

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Are you doing work you believe in?

Siri
Random, accidental screen capture.

 

Life is tough. We could all use a little help. And some days, a lot of help.

Are you doing work you believe in?

If yes, congrats. How did you discover it?

If no, why not? And are you still chasing after it, or have you settled?

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