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Showing posts with label gratidão. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gratidão. Show all posts
Nov 26, 2020

Millions, perhaps billions are thankful.

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  It's Thanksgiving in the US again, that holiday shrouded in myth and nonsense, which has traditionally offered the opportunity to arg...
Apr 26, 2019

The Kindness of Strangers and Friends

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This day was one of tired celebration. I'm in Lisbon, exhausted and relieved at getting my Portuguese visa renewed after months of over-...
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Nov 28, 2014

Another day of gratitude: paying it forward

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As I dragged myself through the wet-misted field yesterday morning to fetch more wood for the office furnace, the cacophony of the neighbo...
Oct 20, 2014

Seven days of gratitude, day seven: free will

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The choice of subject for the last post reflecting on things for which I am grateful was delayed by what my German friends sometimes ca...
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Oct 17, 2014

Seven days of gratitude, day six: hands

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Aboriginal hand stencils in Red Hands Cave, Australia The sixth day post in this series was delayed by a day as my attention was absorbe...
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Oct 15, 2014

Seven days of gratitude, day five: dissidents

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The recording of Glenn Greenwald's TED talk is about one of the most important issues of our day: privacy. That some fail to acknowle...
Oct 14, 2014

Seven days of gratitude, day four: dogs

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As a child, I hated and feared German Shepherds. They were the pit bulls of the 1960s, trained by the rather harsh methods of the times an...
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Oct 13, 2014

Seven days of gratitude, day three: this old frying pan

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When my young veterinarian friend challenged me to write for seven days about things for which I am grateful, there was such a spontaneou...
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Oct 12, 2014

Seven days of gratitude, day two: the storytellers

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My ex-wife used to react with fury when I listened to tapes of interviews with mythologist Joseph Campbell . "That old man just like...
Oct 11, 2014

Seven days of gratitude, day one: the teachers

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Marianne had a birthday yesterday, and I neglected to write. So I suppose this post is my own version of the late electronic birthday card. ...
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