Dear Annie: Grateful Today and Always
Annie Lane encourages readers to practice gratitude daily, not just on Thanksgiving, highlighting its power to bring warmth and connection amid life's imperfections.
- This Thanksgiving day, Lane urges readers at the dinner table to pause and feel grateful, emphasizing gratitude beyond a single Thursday in November.
- Amid imperfect gatherings, Annie Lane argues gratitude is fundamentally paying attention and acknowledges Thanksgiving tables include people eating alone or carrying grief, showing gratitude coexists with sorrow.
- Invoking the poet Rumi's image of gratitude as a cloak, Annie Lane suggests calling to forgive, finding humor in burnt rolls and mismatched chairs, and saying thank you for everyday kindnesses this year.
- Gratitude, Lane writes, keeps us warm when life feels cold and grace often appears in small, unremarkable ways, wishing readers a Thanksgiving full of peace, honesty and lingering gratitude.
- This year, Annie Lane urges making gratitude a lived habit as the year’s routines and the turkey moment rush by, reminding us of love, warmth, laughter and second chances.
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Dear Annie: Grateful hearts and Thanksgiving reflections
Dear Annie: Thanksgiving has a way of sneaking up on us, doesn’t it? One minute we’re rushing through the year, taking the kids to games and meeting deadlines, and the next we’re standing over turkey and wondering how the year flew by so fast. But beneath the noise of the dinner table and all the pie crusts, this day gives us something rare: a reason to pause, look around and feel grateful. Life isn’t perfect, but it’s life, and we’re all blesse…
Dear Annie: Giving thanks this Thanksgiving
Dear Readers: Thanksgiving has a way of sneaking up on us, doesn’t it? One minute we’re rushing through the year, taking the kids to games and meeting deadlines, and the next we’re standing over turkey and wondering how the year flew by so fast. But beneath the noise of the dinner table and all the pie crusts, this day gives us something rare: a reason to pause, look around and feel grateful. Life isn’t perfect, but it’s life, and we’re all bles…
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