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Reminding and encouraging ourselves
to pause, notice and appreciate
the plethora of “good things” in our everyday lives
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To look in the direction of the good things
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Nurturing that continuing awareness
of the remarkable abundance of “good things”
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Link to booklet: “Good Things Are Happening All the Time”
(a “booklet” that I created several years ago )
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Part of Nurturing Thursdays, hosted at Becca Given’s blog, On Dragonfly Wings
Other frequent Nurturing Thursday participants:
Laurie’s Gentle Healing Notes
Meg Evans
Carol Carlisle
Inside the Mind of Isadora
Jacqueline King
Hugmama
Crowing Crone
Mazeepuran
Lady K’s Lounge
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Pocket Perspectives 
So true, and we can’t have too many reminders of it! Thanks. 🙂
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I wonder if this might be a challenging area for many of us?…it sure is for me, and hence that reminder… 🙂
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If we really really stop and ponder — there are always more good things happening …. unfortunately, our society has conditioned us to notice the negative more strongly than the positive. Thank you for the reminder — and for sharing with Nurturing Thursday!
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I sure find this an area of “challenge”… so, as you write…learning to really really stop and ponder…looking at the good things… happy to share..
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I think it’s important to remind ourselves of this particular message, Kathy! Thank you. It isn’t exactly the message we hear every day, is it? It’s a very good thought to repeat frequently!
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I think it’s so valuable to keep reminding ourselves of this idea… I find it can be so easy to slip up, at times. I’m happy to share…
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I love this, Kathy. Thank you for the reminder. 🙂
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You’re welcome…I find that reminder helpful…and easy, at times, to forget…so I continue to remind myself, too.
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Thanks for this reminder, Kathy. We all need them as it’s easy to get caught up with our busy lives and forgot to pause and notice the little blessings that keep appearing in our lives.
Just a thought: have you considered teaching a mindfulness based course to either young students or older adults? The reason I ask is because I learn from your posts and you make it come alive with the art.
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Oh yes….so many blessings…. and you’re right, they do just keep appearing…so wonderful!
I’ve been trying to think of some other, as yet undiscovered, ways of doing “more” than I’ve been doing…perhaps, something “in person” with others. Thank you for your ideas. I hesitate about the idea of actually “teaching” because it seems like someone who teaches should, or would, have more “mastery” of “living” the lessons in a topic than I have at this point…but thank you so much, Marie, for your positive suggestions. I really appreciate your encouraging feedback.
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Thank you for this timely reminder. I can be so critical(!) and drawn to fret about my past/future rather than to be centered in the moment with gratitude. An expansive view opened up for me as I was re-directed with this reminder. Thank you!
As someone lucky enough to have met Kathy in person, I’d agree she’d be a wonderful teacher of mindfulness. The best teachers are active listeners, patient guides, generous of heart, and hold hope for others when they don’t have it themselves. Kathy is such a teacher. 🙂
I enjoy and benefit from all your posts, Kathy.
xoxox, Kathy!
Miss you!
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thank you…………… Joyce, you also have those same “qualities” that you mentioned … you’ve certainly offered those to me….the larger world is looking forward to you sharing those more fully with them. Isn’t it interesting that some of those “good things” that are around us all the time….and that we don’t seem to be aware of….are some of the “good things” within each of us…Joyce, you’re overflowing with good things! 🙂
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