Tag: Grateful

Cry those tears. Express your pain. Feel your emotions that can fill your eyes and spill over, many times without warning. I don’t run from them anymore, wiping them away quickly in an effort to stuff them down really deep and pretend that everything is ok. I don’t will them back into...

It’s almost time to see Eastern Europe. I hope to live there again someday. In the museum, I saw a painting by “Rembrandt” and a painting of a lady in yellow pouring milk. The light was absolutely wonderful. I used to take Vicky for a walk at the lake near Irma’s ...

My coach yesterday suggested that I get back into the habit of expressing gratitude every day and instructed me to write down 10 things today. Just thinking about it, even before writing anything brightened my mood. Here is my list. 1 I’m grateful to be in Athens, my favourite capital ci...

Let me first introduce you to Yarys Lopez. With Thanksgiving approaching in these grim-feeling times, her story really helped me reflect on gratitude — and the obligations that gratitude compels. I hope it will do the same for you. Yarys was just 11 years old when a neighbor tried to b...

Often, we view aging through a lens tinted with the colors of decline and loss. It’s a common perception, painted vividly in our minds and society, that growing old is akin to fading away, both physically and mentally. This notion, deeply ingrained, leads many to fear and even resent the natu...