Living Gratefully...

To be honest, only in the last 5 years, or so, have I truly understood what being grateful means, and how, I believe, it is the key to our happiness. Of course, I thought I understood, and I would make myself believe that I was grateful, but I still had the case of "the wants" that I could not shake...Most of the wants were all things that I thought would make me happy. Having this, having that, wanting more...Thinking that the little fantasy life that I was creating in my head, was the only thing that would make me happy. I finally learned, that my life will never be that fantasy. When I was able to let that go, it was a HUGE relief, because I could finally see all the little, wonderful things around me. I could finally see, what I was not seeing. I thought happiness was so much harder than it is...It's not...It is a choice to be grateful, or not, and GRATEFULNESS is the key to HAPPINESS. It is as simple as that. I have found it is the littlest of things that we should be focusing on...The light of the moon, the taste of a freshly buttered pumpkin-maple biscuit, a child's eyes Christmas morning, our health, our loved ones health, etc.

I started this blog in April, and I cannot believe how wonderful the whole experience has been...

For all of you who follow this blog...THANK YOU....I know you don't have to, and sometimes I still can't believe I have any followers at all....Another thing I am truly grateful for...

Happy Thanksgiving....


This photo is of one of the many struggling American Farmer's during the great depression...
Amazing and rare Photo's Via - America in color- from 1939-1943
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.