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Thank You!

James Riley September 02, 2021 at 16:52 4300 views 54 comments
I don't know if this will take off or not but I thought I'd try and give daily thanks and see if that did any good. You know, the way those touchy-feeling people say it does. Apparently it's a good way to start the day. I could list a metric shit-ton of things I'm grateful for, but I'm going to try to keep it to one per day.

Thank you, Universe, for everything that is or is not part of you, in the staid or changing form that it is or is not in. Fucking awesome!

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Jack Cummins September 02, 2021 at 17:15 #588466
I think that it is a good idea and recommend within the philosophy of the law of attraction as recommended by Esther and Jeremy Hicks. I am sure that many on this site would rubbish the law of attraction, but I do believe that the more we appreciate what we have enables us to continue to receive.

My thanks you for today will be for all the many different people I have experienced on the forum since when I joined it almost a year ago.
ArguingWAristotleTiff September 02, 2021 at 17:54 #588475
I think it's an awesome thread :up:
I am thankful for everyone here, those that I find much in common with, as well as those who are themselves and are achieving their own accomplishments.
And I am also thankful for the health and security enough in my life to be be able to have the time to think about these things. We are on indeed the fortunate ones. :sparkle:
Nils Loc September 02, 2021 at 19:43 #588499
I'm thankful that we're all effectively addressing climate change and that we're innovating toward a stable state economy. Really makes me feel good.

And thank you for fantasy. Imaginary worlds are great.

praxis September 02, 2021 at 21:51 #588529
They say it's the little things that make life worth living so that's where I'll start, with the little things:

Quarks, Protons, Electrons, Atoms – where would we be without this stuff?!
And scaling up a bit, thank you baby squids for being so damn cute.
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180 Proof September 03, 2021 at 00:50 #588568
I'm thankful for sleep.
James Riley September 03, 2021 at 13:56 #588723
I'm thankful for space. I love moving around in it.
Jack Cummins September 03, 2021 at 14:15 #588729
I emphathise with @180 Proof for being thankful for sleep. I am also glad to be having weather which is not noticeable at all. England has barely had any summer weather but some people have been struggling with unbearable heat and even life threatening weather. So, I am grateful for not being too hot to sleep.
James Riley September 04, 2021 at 10:58 #589138
Something sticks it's head out from behind all that I am thankful for. And I want to thank gravity. I don't know what it is, but I'm certainly grateful. Thank you for keeping it all together.
Jack Cummins September 04, 2021 at 12:36 #589153
Thank you for the power of reason, which can be a way of sifting through the rush of ideas which flow into consciousness.
180 Proof September 04, 2021 at 18:33 #589269
I'm also thankful for all of the unknown unknowns keeping me company when I can't sleep.
Noble Dust September 05, 2021 at 05:28 #589420
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Corvus September 05, 2021 at 10:56 #589489
I thank you for languages which enable me say thank you.
James Riley September 05, 2021 at 13:10 #589504
I thank the animals who have taught me that it's okay to thank them, instead of or in addition to their creator(s).
James Riley September 06, 2021 at 12:29 #589835
I thank the air that is held to the Earth by the gravity. I will try to spend more time appreciating each lung-full. Good stuff.
ArguingWAristotleTiff September 06, 2021 at 13:18 #589854
I'm thankful for the sunrise :flower:
praxis September 06, 2021 at 16:40 #589919
I’m thankful for the question mark because it helps me ask questions?
James Riley September 07, 2021 at 12:50 #590181
Thank you to all who use compassionate judgement in keeping busy those who would otherwise use their time to harm me and mine.
James Riley September 08, 2021 at 14:02 #590701
Thank you moon. Good to have you around.
James Riley September 09, 2021 at 13:06 #591180
Thank you water. I still don't understand what I am seeing when you move through. But you are good.
Jack Cummins September 09, 2021 at 14:07 #591204
Thank you for music for its power to restore and give inspiration. I have heard quite a bit of Hendrix, but I listened to his 'Axis: Bold as Love' which I hadn't heard before, and I was simply blown away...
James Riley September 10, 2021 at 13:12 #591818
James Riley September 10, 2021 at 13:17 #591820
Thank you to all the essential workers who do what you do, which keeps me in the standard of living to which I have become accustomed. You aren't always paid enough and "thanks" doesn't always cut it, but thank you anyway. Maybe if you quit I would become a tougher, better person, but I think you teaching me what is essential and what is not, and "for" what. That is a good thing too. Thank you.
James Riley September 11, 2021 at 13:23 #592398
Thank you spark that keeps this old carcass moving around.
James Riley September 12, 2021 at 12:59 #593071
Thank you bison bull. As you lay there on that blonde hillside, taking in hot sun on black hide, chewing cud, ruminating, swatting flies; you remind me that vulnerability is no reason not to rest. There is time. Lots of it.
James Riley September 13, 2021 at 12:46 #593719
Thank you darkness. I love to patrol in you.
James Riley September 19, 2021 at 21:13 #597628
Thank you me, for taking a break.
James Riley September 20, 2021 at 12:38 #597873
Thank you, Apishapa. Good country.
ArguingWAristotleTiff September 20, 2021 at 13:29 #597885
Thank you for being here :flower:
James Riley September 20, 2021 at 15:52 #597922
Reply to ArguingWAristotleTiff

:up: :smile: Thank you, likewise.
Nils Loc September 21, 2021 at 01:19 #598138
I thank all involved in De Niro's portrayal of Travis Bickle in the 1976 movie, Taxi Driver, even though I never saw the movie and just read the plot on wikipedia. Sounds like a good movie.
James Riley September 21, 2021 at 14:56 #598375
Thank you teachers, for your patience.
ArguingWAristotleTiff September 21, 2021 at 15:13 #598379
I am Thankful that when I am able to slingshot myself across the room and onto the floor, trying to multitask while putting on my bra, that I am capable of getting back up to a standing position.
James Riley September 21, 2021 at 15:49 #598383
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Getting back up would indeed be worth some gratitude. And a video recording. :lol:
James Riley September 22, 2021 at 14:04 #598825
Thank you feet! Oh, what I have put you through! And to think, you actually like it. Awesome.
ArguingWAristotleTiff September 23, 2021 at 13:23 #599302
I'm thankful that I know what pain is....
So that in the future the love will feel soft
James Riley September 23, 2021 at 14:13 #599346
Thank you Goshawk, for waking me.
James Riley September 24, 2021 at 12:15 #599841
Thank you Red Tail, for watching my gifts.
James Riley September 25, 2021 at 13:20 #600267
Thank you Raven, for reminding me to speak my own tongue.
James Riley September 26, 2021 at 13:34 #600657
Thank you elk, for humbling me.
Nils Loc September 26, 2021 at 19:21 #600770
Thank you angry sperm whale who rammed and sunk the whaling ship Essex in 1820. Otherwise we might not have the horrendous account of survival from its crew, exemplifying human resilience, and the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Herman Melville: Moby Dick :“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!”




James Riley September 27, 2021 at 13:28 #601128
Thank you rock for reminding me of you.
ArguingWAristotleTiff September 29, 2021 at 14:11 #601892
Thank you for being here in my time of need. :pray:
praxis September 30, 2021 at 15:25 #602227
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Wikipedia :The men suffered severe dehydration, starvation, and exposure on the open ocean, and the survivors eventually resorted to eating the bodies of the crewmen who had died. When that proved insufficient, members of the crew drew lots to determine whom they would sacrifice so that the others could live.


Yikes, those dudes were hardcore. Thank you full refrigerator and dry land.
Nils Loc October 03, 2021 at 02:39 #603073
Thanks to the hardworking USPS who is probably so tired of delivering an infinity of boxes by now to shitty entitled customers that they've decided to give up. My box full of advanced consumption materials must have been swallowed by a whale by now.

Except for the employee at the local office who was born to take the "service" out of customer service.

James Riley October 11, 2021 at 19:41 #605940
Thank you little cloud, for mocking/teasing my tilt toward entitled privilege back in the day.
James Riley October 13, 2021 at 16:15 #606732
Thank you insecurity, for honing my edge. Let's get it on!
James Riley October 15, 2021 at 16:49 #607536
Thank you bison, for growing my heart with the seeds you have sewn.
Nils Loc October 18, 2021 at 01:19 #608478
Thanks Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) for all the landscapes.

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James Riley October 18, 2021 at 12:38 #608572
ArguingWAristotleTiff October 18, 2021 at 16:32 #608603
Thank you for being true to your authentic self :flower:
praxis October 21, 2021 at 02:38 #609737
Thank you William Shatner for taking a risk and being the oldest fucker to ever be expelled into outer space, and for being such a dramatic actor.

James Riley October 24, 2021 at 16:23 #611163
Thank you, cast iron skillet.
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