Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 

Things for which I am grateful on a Wednesday:

1. Cookies
2. Crossing items off my list
3. Buddies
4. Letters
5. The backspace button
6. Folders
7. Instructions
8. Sweaters (ugly or not)
9. Electric lights in the winter (summer, too)
10. Melodic history lessons

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
― Doris Day

“Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray.”
― Jonathan Lemon

Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Monday, November 5th, 2018 

Things for which I am grateful on a Monday:

1. Being dry (it is raining today)
2. Help from others
3. New batteries
4. Glasses
5. Blankets
6. Correctly-sized envelopes
7. Spell check (even when it’s wrong)
8. That I can hit backspace instead of using white-out
9. An extra hour of sleep over the weekend
10. Easily re-programmable clocks

“The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.”
― Henri Nouwen

“I bet Henri Nouwen liked that song by Kool and The Gang.”
― Jonathan Lemon

Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 

Things for which I am grateful on an October Tuesday:

1. Sunny weather
2. Opportunities
3. Clean water on demand
4. Clean laundry
5. Family dinners
6. Colorful fall leaves
7. Repaved roads
8. Snow has melted already
9. A comfortable home
10. Books

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
― William Arthur Ward

“I’m grateful you can express gratitude without knowing how to gift wrap!”
― Jonathan Lemon

Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Monday, October 1st, 2018 

Things for which I am grateful on a cloudy Monday:

1. Caramel apples
2. Clean laundry
3. Umbrellas
4. Tea
5. New highlighters
6. Electricity
7. Filled in potholes
8. Clean glasses lenses
9. The US can’t lose any more Ryder Cup points this year
10. I’m not into pumpkin spice, but I’ll try vicarious gratitude here, and be grateful that it’s the time of year when pumpkin people can parade their passion

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Taking things with gratitude…the one thing it is OK to take without permission.”
― Jonathan Lemon

Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Thursday, September 20th, 2018 

A Thursday-That-Feels-Like-Friday Gratitude List:

1. Meaningful work
2. Fresh fruit
3. Reliable transportation
4. Mutual sharing
5. Old fashioned letter writing
6. Temperate evenings
7. Trees
8. Humor
9. Football season
10. Not being bothered that it’s Thursday, not Friday

But seriously, it’s not Friday today?

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
― Melody Beattie

“Anything that can make even a little sense out of my past is impressive and has my respect.”
― Jonathan Lemon