039: I am grateful for Halloween

October 31, 2009

On the evening of October 31st, in Canada and the U.S. especially, children dress up in scary (or not so scary) costumes bang on doors in their neighborhoods and collect candy. Playmobil Halloween on Flickr Halloween is not all about candy, costumes and kids. Well, not exactly. What is Halloween? Halloween (also written Hallowe’en, literally [...]

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038: I am grateful for trains

October 30, 2009

This post is coming to you from the defrig.com mobile office in Seattle WA. This morning Carol, a.k.a. Mrs. Grateful, and myself were up before the birds and in a taxi on the way to the train station. Photo by Professor Bop on Flickr. We hopped on Amtrak train number 513 and choo-choo’d our way [...]

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037: I am grateful for adoption

October 29, 2009

Every year at this time I reflect on the events that were taking place for two families around now, exactly 40 years ago – One was a young mother wondering what had become of the three month old son that she had to put up for adoption, the other was a loving young couple who [...]

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036: I am grateful for bed

October 28, 2009

I am not feeling well. As if my immune system has not had enough of a beating over the last 6 months. Symptoms: sore throat, runny nose and headache. We, Carol is feeling it too, either have a cold or the flu. Great. Two days before we are scheduled to take the train to Seattle. [...]

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035: I am grateful for candy

October 27, 2009

It is that time of year again. When I was a wee puckster I loved Halloween just as much as the enthusiastic young fellow in the photo below. And probably for the same reason as far as I can tell by the excited look on his face. Photo by Casey Fleser on Flickr I lived [...]

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034: I am grateful for learning

October 26, 2009

Today I spent some time educating myself on a few things. I have been learning about better business practices, the value of using WordPress as a CMS (content management system), how to better communicate with clients and of course a bit more about what I need to let go of to live a little more [...]

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033: I am grateful for tradition

October 25, 2009

As you probably know, carving a Jack o’ Lantern for Halloween is a tradition in North America. Today Carol and I went to her co-worker’s house for a little pumpkin carving. Being from Australia, they had never done it before and I think they had a blast. Photo by Mike Browne (Yes, me!) as seen [...]

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032: I am grateful for adventure

October 24, 2009

What a fun day we had today. We headed off to Richmond on the brand new Canada Line with Carol’s friends Denise, Cynthia and Cynthia’s mom. Photo by Emanuela Marchiafava on Flickr In addition to riding the rails we ate authentic Chinese food, smelled strange odors, looked at books that open backwards (to my western [...]

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031: I am grateful for drive

October 23, 2009

It has been a full month since I started this and I have posted once a day. I am not all that surprised that I made it an entire month. I am, after all, quite driven lately. Photo found on Flickr courtesy of Freeparking. It is hard to find a photo about drive that does [...]

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030: I am grateful for positivity

October 22, 2009

I woke up this morning a man on a mission; full of self-confidence and positive energy. I did my best to exude that to everyone I had any contact with today. It felt pretty darned good. Photo by Lukasz Strachanowski on Flickr Today I am grateful for positivity. A way of being I have been [...]

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