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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and
contradictions. They're archived here back to 2002, and a new one is
posted every Monday morning. Dialogue is still welcome . . .
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Quote #1213 - #ThanksGiving (Still)
24 Nov, 2025
THANKS GIVING (STILL)
"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain old-fashioned ingratitude."
Robert Brault
"It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."
Germany Kent
"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."
Alphonse Karr
A TOUR ROUND MY GARDEN
So many walls are closing in--around us all and also around those who seek to destroy us. Still I feel more hopefulness than despair, against what can seem like unwaveringly poor odds.
Isn't that the most incredible thing about life, that it is so complex? That even in the most tortured, despairing moments there is love and beauty to be found? That just as something unknown-to-be-precarious can be thrown out of balance and destroyed by a breeze, something unknown-to-be-precipitous can be brought into being by the energy of desire, or faith, or just chance?
That is why manifestation can be so powerful, not because it can make things happen that have no chance of happening, but that things are so often both more precipitous and more precarious than we realize, more contingent upon more complex elements than we know. And breezes of all kinds can move them in one direction or another.
Today I am grateful that almost every single Monday morning for something like 25 years, I have found connection, discovery, and joy in writing and sending out these pieces. Which, of course, would not be possible without you receiving them, reading them, and, sometimes even responding to them (just a few each week, which is kind of perfect-- acknowledging to me that there is impact, but not overwhelming).
So I am grateful, too, for every one of you. And if I haven't said it to you directly, I'm saying it to you now.
THANK YOU! I APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENCE IN MY LIFE AND IN THE WORLD!
That feels good.
Is there someone you haven't thanked recently or at all? Whatever the reason.
Thank them.
It feels good to give thanks.
Shellen Lubin
November 24, 2025
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