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Daily Question, October 29

What are you grateful for during this pandemic?

  • Elaine

    I notice what is left because so much is gone. And then I can choose to go deeper with what is. Social connections happen less frequently and with fewer people and I cherish each one even more. And musicians and other artists and arts institutions are dreaming up new ways to present and nourishing us in exciting new ways.

  • Ed Schulte

    I am grateful for its powerful reminder….Covid-19 reminds mankind that its heath, and the health of this planet is the responsibility of every individual, and not just to ones self, to each and every other being.

    I am grateful that Covid-19 will serve as a reminder to future generations that FREEDOM comes with the responsibility to Love and respect ALL…it was never, or will ever be, a game of “Us vs Them”.

  • Shellan

    I am grateful I joined our local hiking club and have gone on 1 trip to the mountains as well as 50+ local hikes with them. I absolutely fell in love with hiking.

  • Lexi

    I am grateful for how close I am to the people who I spent the entire pandemic with. I don’t think I would have been close to them otherwise, and they have become a significant part of my life.

  • dimple dangi

    I am grateful that I got to spend so much time with my family which would have been impossible otherwise

  • Pollyanna Gladwell

    The laughter generated by the very funny memes about it that have arrived on my phone reminds me not to take life too seriously. Planning is pointless. Acceptance is imperative. Gratefulness is burgeoning. Love is abounding.

  • Ose
    For friends and family. To wake up, still be able to prepare my cup of coffee in the morning, to open the computer and to share with you all here. For the food which is still available in abundance and in good quality. I Cherish the clean water. It is such a gift to just open the water tap and drinkable water appears! Since I had the opportunity to spend some time in the magnificence of the desert, the preciousness and gratitude for water, the essential need of every living being never left me. ...

    For friends and family. To wake up, still be able to prepare my cup of coffee in the morning, to open the computer and to share with you all here. For the food which is still available in abundance and in good quality. I Cherish the clean water. It is such a gift to just open the water tap and drinkable water appears! Since I had the opportunity to spend some time in the magnificence of the desert, the preciousness and gratitude for water, the essential need of every living being never left me. To cook for my friends is my pleasure especially in these days of scarcity of social contact and to share lunch or dinner with gratitude and to spend some joyful time together.

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  • Hot Sauce
    I think the long-term effects of the pandemic might end up being some positive changes that happen in our social structures. People know how to use Zoom now, so we could livestream most meetings and events even when we are back in person so that people who cannot be physically present can be included. Maybe, God-willing, we will see some structural changes to our healthcare system, since this has exposed its evils. And hopefully, the seriousness of the crisis in the United States will teach us t...

    I think the long-term effects of the pandemic might end up being some positive changes that happen in our social structures. People know how to use Zoom now, so we could livestream most meetings and events even when we are back in person so that people who cannot be physically present can be included. Maybe, God-willing, we will see some structural changes to our healthcare system, since this has exposed its evils. And hopefully, the seriousness of the crisis in the United States will teach us to never elect a dictator again. Maybe, we are learning some lessons about what we need to change going forward. Maybe this pandemic is a confrontation of all the oppressive systems in our country.

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  • Miss C S Payne

    I am grateful for the planet getting a rest from the amount of damage humans cause to nature and less people being around has made an improvement to massive parts of nature such as plants and animals.

  • Present Moment

    I’m grateful for the sea creatures coming back to shores, rivers, beaches they dared not venture into during non- Covid times. I’m grateful they know and feel they come to help build a new, different world.

  • HSR

    Being alive, feeling the breeze on my face as I sit on my balcony watching the hummingbirds at the feeder and enjoying this lovely moment outside to just sit and be still.

  • Don Jones

    What a wonderful panorama opens up when you take nothing for granted.

  • Linda

    I am grateful for the open time. Setting my own schedule, including work, is refreshing. No commute time, no hours to keep once I have completed my work. I have time now to walk and enjoy nature in the afternoons, and see friends (socially distanced, of course). I have time to think and ponder and wonder.

  • Mica

    All the new opportunities to learn new ways of doing things and connecting with people.
    My negative covid results yesterday [grateful but not surprised!]

  • Zenith

    So very much. I started my gratitude journey. Read massive numbers of books to review on my blog. Started my blog. Started my language study via Duolingo. Got involved with Letters Against Isolation. Joined a gym through Silver Sneakers. My son reconciled with me. Enjoyed profound amounts of sunshine. What more could a person want?

  • Melissa

    I am so grateful for so many things. Nature that brings me peace. The roof over my head that I feel safe in, being able to work from home. The doctors and nurses who are standing by in my hometown clinics and hospitals. All my neighbors wearing masks where ever I go for essential goods. For the good food to eat that still comes to the stores. The love of family and friends during this difficult scary time of the pandemic.

  • Javier Visionquest

    This pandemic is the beginning of a broad spectrum awakening. I’m a little embarrassed that it’s come to this but grateful for the opportunity for so many to experience the world from the perspective of those among us who live life at the margins every day on the regular.

    “What we tolerate for the least of us will become normal for the rest of us”

    • Mica

      Yes, Javier! broad spectrum awakening – may it bring some good into the world – it’s actually amazing to be part of this experience.

      • Javier Visionquest
        Isn’t it though, Mica? It makes me glad for those who appreciate the experience for what it is! I first discovered gratefulness.org and Br. David through an On Being interview with Krista Tippet where he explained anxiety as being a constrictive, “choking”, or constraining sensation; as he explained it, “the original of such experiences being that of our own birth” and the new world of possibilities that are created on the other side. Now, I believe we’re all going through such an an...

        Isn’t it though, Mica? It makes me glad for those who appreciate the experience for what it is! I first discovered gratefulness.org and Br. David through an On Being interview with Krista Tippet where he explained anxiety as being a constrictive, “choking”, or constraining sensation; as he explained it, “the original of such experiences being that of our own birth” and the new world of possibilities that are created on the other side. Now, I believe we’re all going through such an anxious period.

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        • Mica

          Thank you, Javier – I’m loving ‘Kitchen Table Wisdom’ and her next book now, for lots of insights and entertaining stories of people going thru medical and other difficulties. stay well [that seems to be the proper sentiment these days ;-]

  • pkr
    I am grateful for so many things during this “re-set”; for my family and the opportunity to be near them, even tho a family health crisis brought me to them, I am thankful I can be here. For my beautiful daughter, an essential worker, who makes me proud everyday. For a roof over my head, food in the fridge, coffee, clean water. For my good health. For more time, for reading & exploring & expanding on my “spiritual journey”. For money in the bank, finally was able to collect unemp...

    I am grateful for so many things during this “re-set”; for my family and the opportunity to be near them, even tho a family health crisis brought me to them, I am thankful I can be here. For my beautiful daughter, an essential worker, who makes me proud everyday. For a roof over my head, food in the fridge, coffee, clean water. For my good health. For more time, for reading & exploring & expanding on my “spiritual journey”. For money in the bank, finally was able to collect unemployment, for a lost job. For God’s Light, holding me up, surrounding me. I am truly blessed and so very grateful. Thanks to All here….🙏

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  • My bikes so I can get lots of fresh air. I ride to work too and it’s nice. As soon as I am at work on goes that mask! Apparently they aren’t even safe nor prevent the contagion but I follow the rules at least when I am doing good…

  • Journey

    For our health, the ability to work from home, the extra sleep from not having to commute. And mainly for the medical community who works tirelessly and all the people that work in core services like super markets and have to go into work everyday.

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