With its wicked winds ripping all the glorious color off trees and sending it fleeing down the street, November can appear incongruent to its theme of gratitude, especially this year. It seems difficult to summon thankfulness as days and tempers grow short, and many of the things for which we are most grateful seem so [...]
I’m learning to love in November what I love and admire in most people I know. Stripped of October’s candy corn color and uncorrupted by December’s frantic glitz, November offers only this: gratitude. And that’s a lot. November is the friend you walk with on mornings so cold your eyes water and your nose runs [...]
Just after the harvest and before the holidays, we get to enjoy a few quiet weeks I like to call the thankful season. Gratitude seeps into these mornings like sunrise over a frozen field and, if we rise early enough, we can sip our tea slowly and watch it grow. Thank you for my thick, [...]