Love this. My thank you writing practice helped me to navigate my grief after my Dad's death. As I've often written, the word 'gratitude' has all kinds of negative associations for me, but 'thankfulness' and 'thank you' instantly lift my mood. What a lovely prompt - to turn this into a chain of thank you. 💜
Thank you, Helen and Margy, for this prompt, and for creating this community. 💜
Nov 24, 2023·edited Nov 24, 2023Liked by Margy Thomas
My mom instilled in us the practice of handwritten thank you notes, and it's a practice I not only love to maintain, but also passed down to my own children. There really is something beautiful about someone taking the time to handwrite a note of expression. In addition to writing thank you notes, I saw this cute craft on IG and gave it a go to create roses from fallen leaves to accompany the notes. 🌹💝 Wishing you and your beautiful ohanas a very Happy Thanksgiving 🧡💫🙏
Love this prompt on the value of 'giving thanks' and wanted to share this poem:
“When Giving Is All We Have” – Alberto Ríos
One river gives
Its journey to the next.
We give because someone gave to us.
We give because nobody gave to us.
We give because giving has changed us.
We give because giving could have changed us.
We have been better for it,
We have been wounded by it—
Giving has many faces: It is loud and quiet,
Big, though small, diamond in wood-nails.
Its story is old, the plot worn and the pages too,
But we read this book, anyway, over and again:
Giving is, first and every time, hand to hand,
Mine to yours, yours to mine.
You gave me blue and I gave you yellow.
Together we are simple green. You gave me
What you did not have, and I gave you
What I had to give—together, we made
Something greater from the difference.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing, Anne 🧡
Love this. My thank you writing practice helped me to navigate my grief after my Dad's death. As I've often written, the word 'gratitude' has all kinds of negative associations for me, but 'thankfulness' and 'thank you' instantly lift my mood. What a lovely prompt - to turn this into a chain of thank you. 💜
Thank you, Helen and Margy, for this prompt, and for creating this community. 💜
Thank you for being here, Sophie!
My mom instilled in us the practice of handwritten thank you notes, and it's a practice I not only love to maintain, but also passed down to my own children. There really is something beautiful about someone taking the time to handwrite a note of expression. In addition to writing thank you notes, I saw this cute craft on IG and gave it a go to create roses from fallen leaves to accompany the notes. 🌹💝 Wishing you and your beautiful ohanas a very Happy Thanksgiving 🧡💫🙏