If you’ve ever sung, with a choir or even in a sing-a-long or karaoke, you’ve likely benefited from a piano or organ playing along. Today’s gratitude challenge is to be grateful for these un-sung heroes. They keep you, the singer, in tune and in tempo. Most of the time they are responsible for their own …
Gratitude Challenge – Letting go
By Merry Mary I hold onto things. I am staring at a miniature baseball bat from a company event in 2013. It is resting in a large glass beer mug from a company event in 2016. I’m no longer at the company, so why am I holding on to this swag? Today’s gratitude challenge is a different type …
Gratitude challenge – Neighbors
By Merry Mary Not all neighbors are created equal. I’m on my neighborhood’s HOA committee that approves of paint/exterior work on the homes. You’d be surprised the squabbles we run into. The latest one occurred between neighboring townhouses, where townhouse 1 has a sunroom whose wall abuts townhouse 2’s deck. Years ago townhome 2’s homeowner brandished a gun …
Gratitude Challenge – NOISE
By Merry Mary Years ago Neil Diamond wrote a song called ‘A beautiful noise’. There are noises that are not so attractive (the buzzer when you get an answer wrong on a game show). There are noises that alert us to get out of the way (police and ambulance sirens). These are noises that indicate life (a deep …