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Happy Thanksgiving!

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“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” Alphonse Karr

thanksgivingPhoto Credit: JD Pierre – Pierre Dining Room

On Thursday this week, we will celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s the time of year when we pull our families close over a great meal and express our gratitude. We celebrate the people, experiences, and personal victories that have given us the fuel we need to keep moving forward. I’m always happy to see my family during joyful occasions. I also plan to sneak in a visit to an arboretum or two while we are on holiday. Because after all, we’ll need some exercise to offset all of the great food we will enjoy during the festivities.

I hope your Thanksgiving celebration deepens your connections to friends and family! Don’t forget to make some time to be alone with your thoughts and to strengthen your connection to spirit. Remember it’s important to nurture community and self.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I couldn’t find a specifically themed Thanksgiving song for this week. So, I decided to go with a high energy fun tune…”Can’t Stop the Feeling.” JT and the cast make me want to get my own flash mob together. Enjoy!

Until next week,

Pernà

Grateful Celebrating

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This past week, I celebrated a birthday (que Stevie…). I’m so excited about turning 48 and I’m grateful for this awesome life I am living!  As I reflected on what I’m most grateful for, I realized that I could use more celebration in my life. As I examined what celebration means to me, it led me to gratitude. In fact, it’s hard for me to distinguish gratitude and celebration from each other; because the more I think about the things I’m grateful for, the more I want to celebrate.

I’m grateful that I was born to a wonderful and courageous mother; whose sacrifice to bring me life has brought me my greatest opportunity to express gratitude. This gift alone has grounded me with an understanding that love really is the greatest gift of all (que Whitney…). I’ve celebrated this gift by learning to enjoy and appreciate motherhood; which makes nurturing my children a very fulfilling experience.

I’m grateful for my husband; who has loved me through the good, bad, and ugly. His commitment to our family has stretched him wide open and yet he continues to provide a well of love so deep for us, we always feel his protection. This love, I celebrate daily and I look forward to the end of the day when I can snuggle up next to him and kiss his strong hands that provide a safe place for all of us to thrive.

Every day, I’m surrounded by family and close friends who demonstrate their love by investing their time and energy to our shared happiness. Not one day goes by that I am left to wonder who I am in their lives. I am grateful for these friendships and I celebrate them by offering prayers of protection, calling, writing, or sharing exchanges on social media.

I am enjoying this wonderful life I’ve been given and I know that God has provided ‘green pastures’ for me. My one wish for this next year is to celebrate the awesomeness in my life more often; which means to be so overcome with gratitude that I have to share the joy with another. I plan to do exactly that and in case you did not know, my one word for 2016 is ‘Fun’; because how can you celebrate without having fun?

Jonathan Butler has captured how I’m feeling about these 48 years …

Until next week,

Pernà