Gratitude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw

Thanks Ken!

Grateful & Happy to wake up each Day.  I'm blessed with the cyber-world company of the nice people (& bots) here, and my refrigerator is running. Husky just got a Fulbright  Scholarship to learn Ballet,  and a Grant from China to spread Maoism at Italian-American Social Clubs.

I am so proud of his Working-Dawg work ethic.

Love the handle, Mrs.

Not only do i have food in fridge, roof over my head, and a comfy couch to tour on....but, i also have not only t.p, but a back-up roll as well!!

I am grateful for that roll.....very....

Gone are the days....;)

Be kind......love to all

Disco, we need a pic of H.I.M. in his slippers....on the rail

----- I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me."

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Personally having the best year of my life in decades.  Gave up drinking and all drugs in January, started working out at the gym four times a week, take yoga classes and mediate twice a day.  Anxiety levels have plummeted, clarity is huge, just about every aspect of life is better.

Let the outside world take care of itself.  Take care of yourself and the ones you love.

When the "outside world" wants to take care of you (and not in a good way), you need to concern yourself with it.

So you're against big government taking care of you?

Good to hear.

The outside world doesn't give a shit about you and there's very little that you can do about it anyway.  Get on with your life.

Yeah, that's what the powers that be want you to do.

I support neither the "1984" nor the "Brave New World" agendas.

Speaking of the intrusive state...

IQ costs Oregon parents their kids, but is that fair?

For nearly four years, the Redmond couple has been fighting to prove to the state of Oregon that they are intellectually capable of raising their children. The Department of Human Services has removed both of their boys, saying the parents are too mentally limited to be good parents.

Fabbrini, 31, and Ziegler, 38, lost custody of their older son, Christopher, shortly after he was born. Five months ago, the state took their second child, newborn Hunter, directly from the hospital. Both are now in foster care. 

"I love kids, I was raised around kids, my mom was a preschool teacher for 20-plus years, and so I've always been around kids," Fabbrini said. "That's my passion. I love to do things with kids, and that's what I want to do in the future, something that has to do with kids."

No abuse or neglect has been found, but each parent has a degree of limited cognitive abilities. Rather than build a network of support around them, the state child welfare agency has moved to terminate the couple's parental rights and make the boys available for adoption.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/07/paren...

Remind me, what party has been running Oregon for 30 years?

I think I know this one

^Sounds like Oregon could use some more federal funding. 

I'm grateful that California continues to provide entitlement services to all residents who have qualifying developmental disabilities.  It's each person's choice whether or not they want the services, of course.

Gratitude is good stuff!

Thom, I'm happy for you that your changes have had such a good impact on your life.

clarity is huge<<

LOL

Poor Thom.

Let me google some BS in a nice thread 

grateful for those who taught (and continue to) me valuable lessons this year..

grateful for those who love and care for me the way i do them..

grateful 

Sorry.

Not!

This year started off fine, felt that I was in for a spell of smooth sailing, but the last 2-21/2 months have been challenging, My wive's Dad took a turn for the worse with is cancer diagnosis and I have had to deal with a sick dog that has been in and out of the vet for that whole time and still no idea what is causing her problems, just trial and error with course after course of different meds. The home started falling apart, tomorrow I get to spend 3k so the shitter will continue to flush :( , and as always work is at warp speed. I'm still alive and thankful for that, but it's getting real hard to stay in a positive mindset. I'm also very thankful for the many friends that I have met here who give me great advise, mostly reminding me that things could be much much worse. I hope to see a few this weekend in NH and get some dancing on to some good ol GD

rant over

Almost 7 months sober, definitely lots of shit going down in my life, but gratitude is in there somewhere!

The lovely Jill's lovely thread went political. Never would have thought.

My dad always says, " be thankful for what you have, and for what you don't have."

I'm still enamored to live with running water. Not to mention the choice of hot cold. 

Gratitude is an action word

I love the screen name change Mrs Jesus! And yes we should chat!

sometimes when facing adversity and sadness, I like to do something nice for someone. Its a win win.    Perspective is the key for me.

so many nice people on this thread staying on topic and proppin each other up! One love!

Oh and Im grateful today for the Spoon show at XPN fest last night.