Today is Thanksgiving day, for which we celebrate words of gratitude from Ralph Waldo Emmerson, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jonathan Safrain Foer.
I'd like to see more faith expressed in this column. Anyone can follow contemporary mores and belief systems. But it takes real courage to follow your God even when he's not so popular. Let's love on God a little. Yay!! Thank you.
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
--I accept my ears that used to stick out
& my chef-boss at Joseph's in Boston
called me "Clark" after Clark Gable
(when I could hear better & are now closer to my balding head).
--I accept my once nimble feet,
the bottoms of which feel like cardboard in bed
(I am glad however i have a nice bed).
--I accept my polka-dotting memory
called brown-outs or senior moments
(& it may be all-for-the-best for some of them).
--I accept the diabetes, the strictures, poor breathing,
getting headaches + other aches
(but I can still walk, eat, care).
--I think of all the songs we sang with our folks
with dad thinking we seven kids
were his very own barber-shop harmonizers;
& had I died young I could have avoided
problems that arise in my life
but that life of mine says more to me
than any of my lists of sorrows & joys.
© Copyright Edward Mycue
Blessings to you and yours. Happy thanksgiving ❤️.
Im having difficulty finding the book, “On Gratitude”. Can you help with an author?
In today's email (11/24/22), can you provide the name of the author of the book "On Gratitude."
Thanks.
Abraham
I'd like to see more faith expressed in this column. Anyone can follow contemporary mores and belief systems. But it takes real courage to follow your God even when he's not so popular. Let's love on God a little. Yay!! Thank you.