Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 Things for which I am grateful on a Wednesday: Cookies Crossing items off my list Buddies Letters The backspace button Folders Instructions Sweaters (ugly or not) Electric lights in the winter (summer, too) Melodic history lessons “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” ― Doris Day “Harry …
Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Monday, November 5th, 2018 Things for which I am grateful on a Monday: Being dry (it is raining today) Help from others New batteries Glasses Blankets Correctly-sized envelopes Spell check (even when it’s wrong) That I can hit backspace instead of using white-out An extra hour of sleep over the …
Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 Things for which I am grateful on an October Tuesday: Sunny weather Opportunities Clean water on demand Clean laundry Family dinners Colorful fall leaves Repaved roads Snow has melted already A comfortable home Books “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and …
Make Your Own Rules Many pints of ice cream and successful lottery tickets ago (I’m just kidding…about the second thing) I wrote about giving myself a nickname. One of society’s unwritten rules holds that Thou Shalt Not Apply Thine Own Nickname, so giving myself a nickname was unusual. Why did my peers go along with …
Jonathan Lemon’s Gratitude List for Monday, October 1st, 2018 Things for which I am grateful on a cloudy Monday: Caramel apples Clean laundry Umbrellas Tea New highlighters Electricity Filled in potholes Clean glasses lenses The US can’t lose any more Ryder Cup points this year I’m not into pumpkin spice, but I’ll try vicarious gratitude …