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Daily Question, April 30

What is a cultural/family tradition that I cherish?

  • Jennifer L. Wyatt

    My father and my mother used to take my sisters and me to cultural events around the city. This included trips to the art museum, plays, and symphonies. We also went to sporting events. They have a particular culture of there own to share. We also enjoyed at fairs, bookstores, and camping.

  • reality

    Keeping in communication with family and friends, personally. While, as a multi-culturalist, I appreciate and participate in almost any positive cultural, familial, traditional, etc., celebrations, events 🙂 reality

  • Taziz

    I enjoy Eid feasts and get-togethers at relative’s homes. I get to meet my cousins, catch up with them. The food is delish. What more could I ask for?

  • jessicamomberg

    The cultural and family tradition that I value include special Christmas dinners and Easter spent with my diverse, fun and crazy family.

  • Mica

    My son’s Sunday night dinners are especially wonderful during this lockdown! None of us is working outside the home, so he and his family welcome me over, wanting me only to wash my hands as soon as I arrive. And I get to spend time there with my 2 granddaughters!

  • Hot Sauce
    I love celebrating Christmas! On Christmas Eve, we go to church and have a beautiful candlelight service (the second to last verse of "Silent Night," sung a capella, combined with the mystical light of the candles, always gives me goosebumps!).Then, we go home and eat all kinds of homemade snacks and watch a Christmas story. In the morning, of course, we open our presents (which still say "From Santa To _" because we still like to imagine the old man and his magical reindeer exists. Once we've o...

    I love celebrating Christmas! On Christmas Eve, we go to church and have a beautiful candlelight service (the second to last verse of “Silent Night,” sung a capella, combined with the mystical light of the candles, always gives me goosebumps!).Then, we go home and eat all kinds of homemade snacks and watch a Christmas story. In the morning, of course, we open our presents (which still say “From Santa To _” because we still like to imagine the old man and his magical reindeer exists. Once we’ve opened our presents, we either go to Colorado Springs to go to the annual family Christmas party or, if we get snowed in, we stay at home and mess with our presents all day and continue eating leftover snacks from the night before. Through all this, I remember and celebrate the Messiah’s coming, both as the historical Jesus and the inner Messiah-light, and remember that the coming of Jesus and the inner Messiah allows us to have new life and participate in an ongoing process of spiritual growth initiated by the esoteric knowledge Jesus and the inner Messiah-light bring.

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  • kds618

    Every Halloween, my mom and I watch scary movies and hand out candy together. We dressed up this year for my nephews; I was Annabelle, and she was Annabelle’s mother. Halloween is also my favourite time of the year. I am very happy that Halloween is on a Saturday this year.

    • Michele

      Halloween is my favorite holiday too!

      • kds618

        I’ll be honest, I mostly like it because its a holiday I can still celebrate by myself without the stress of SOME family members 😛

  • TeriB

    The Italian Christmas Eve tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Although it takes over a week to prepare all the fish and food it is a wonderful evening with family and friends.

  • Katrina

    An annual family gathering for vacation or retreat, during which we spend at least 3 consecutive days together…measuring the grandkids heights, traveling together for a day or week, cooking together, having a girls’ day, boys’ day, mom’s day, dad’s day, games, songs, prayers…this is my favorite.

  • slawrence

    Cooking a special dish like corn pudding or yam casserole on Thanksgiving Day. Now matter what financial challenges we have at the time, we can come up with something that evokes old memories and creates new ones.

  • Rachel

    I love Christmas. Especially the decorating of the tree. Each ornament has a story and as we gather to hang them we celebrate with joyful music to laugh, remember and create together. Now not every year is so bright but the tradition anchors us in meaning and connection no matter what is happening within our family, with our friends or in the world around us.

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    Eid ul fitr and Eid ul adha
    – the Muslim religious holidays

  • Michele

    My answer is the same as last year. As an adult, I still dye Easter eggs, it’s fun and so pretty.

  • Eddie

    Growing up I loved Christmas Eve – mom would cook a huge meal. We always waited until Christmas morning for any gift exchange – the anticipation and waiting was hard but so cherished today.

  • devy

    Growing up in an English based culture, m’y mother was German. We were the only family in a small town who celebrated Christmas or Weihnachten on Christmas Eve. We would have a big meal followed by opening of presents. When I married my wife is French Canadian who follow the same tradition I continue my childhood…..

  • On holidays, we all get together and share a meal and time together as an extended family. Our family has also just started a monthly zoom meeting which has been very enjoyable. It is a great opportunity to visit with each other when we cannot physically be in one place.

  • Kevin

    Are folks at Gratefulness aware of what I think is a glitch in the system here? Today’s questions, which has been asked a year or so ago, is adding today’s entries onto what all of us responded to the last time that this question was asked! Kind of funny, actually, and enjoyable to read what we all responded to previously!

    • Saoirse
      Hi Kevin, Yes! We are aware of this glitch. This particular question was in a "pending" file and surprised us here this morning - sorry about that! Also, you may have noticed, occasionally two questions appear. Our system if full of surprises! That said, many of the questions recycle (like you mention in your comment below) and that is purposeful. We recognize that we all change over time so the questions can elicit a fresh response after some time has passed. We also add new questions regularly...

      Hi Kevin, Yes! We are aware of this glitch. This particular question was in a “pending” file and surprised us here this morning – sorry about that! Also, you may have noticed, occasionally two questions appear. Our system if full of surprises! That said, many of the questions recycle (like you mention in your comment below) and that is purposeful. We recognize that we all change over time so the questions can elicit a fresh response after some time has passed. We also add new questions regularly. We love that you have been participating in this practice for 5 years and are finding opportunities to consider questions more thoroughly and deeply. Lovely. Thank you all for your patience!

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      • Kevin

        And thank you, Saoirse, and your Gratefulness team, for all you do for all of us!

        • Saoirse

          You’re so welcome, Kevin. I think I can comfortably say on behalf of the team that we love being part of this community with all of you and are grateful to be of service. Thank you!

    • Michele

      I’ve also noticed that, it happened before. Maybe they’re running out of questions to ask?

      • Saoirse
        Hi Michele, As Kevin guessed, we have a glitch in our system that did pull in a few questions (along with answers) from last year. That said, we have lots of new questions mixed in with "recycled" ones so you will continue to see questions repeated (but hopefully without earlier responses included!). Our hope is that repeated questions will elicit fresh responses and, as Kevin remarks below, invite you to engage the question more deeply than you might have first time around. Thanks for being her...

        Hi Michele, As Kevin guessed, we have a glitch in our system that did pull in a few questions (along with answers) from last year. That said, we have lots of new questions mixed in with “recycled” ones so you will continue to see questions repeated (but hopefully without earlier responses included!). Our hope is that repeated questions will elicit fresh responses and, as Kevin remarks below, invite you to engage the question more deeply than you might have first time around. Thanks for being here! And thank you for your patience with our system, its glitches, imperfections and gifts. With warmth and gratitude, Saoirse

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      • Kevin
        Actually, a fair number of the daily questions are repeat ones, which is fine with me because I noticed that I may not be in the same place and mindset when I answer a repeat question for the second time or year or so later. And how do I know that they occasionally repeat? For the past five years I copy each daily question into a Word document that I keep. I first also answer the question in my document. This allows me to not only save what I have shared but it also helps me to consider each que...

        Actually, a fair number of the daily questions are repeat ones, which is fine with me because I noticed that I may not be in the same place and mindset when I answer a repeat question for the second time or year or so later. And how do I know that they occasionally repeat? For the past five years I copy each daily question into a Word document that I keep. I first also answer the question in my document. This allows me to not only save what I have shared but it also helps me to consider each question more thoroughly and more deeply, I believe, before I place my answer into the response section of the gratefulness site. once in a while when I am pretty sure that a question is a repeat one I do a search for it in my documents and read How I answered it the first time around. Often times though, I feel that a different answer is more appropriate now.

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  • Kevin

    Nothing too fancy with our clan, though my wife and I have a tradition of calling our seven grandchildren, our daughters and our son-in-laws early on their birthday and belt-out our rendition of “Happy Birthday” with determination and flair, and if we’re lucky, a bit of harmony, too!

  • Rita

    Sunday breakfast and making Tamales with my family on New Years Eve!

  • Eva Liu

    I loved the roadtrips we had as a family together when I was little. That enclosed time with an unencumbered road ahead of us. I miss those and try to get in as many roadtrips as I can now with my family.

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