Gratitude Practice
Numbers People Trust and the Ones That Actually Help
There is a strange consistency to the numbers people place trust in. A lucky birthday.
The first year I kept a blessings journal, I also had a small brown pebble in my coat pocket. I had picked it up from a churchyard the week my father was in hospital, and I did not go outside without it for almost eight months.
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There is a strange consistency to the numbers people place trust in. A lucky birthday.
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The wellness bookshelf usually treats risk and blessing as opposites. Risk is dangerous and adult. Blessing is soft and small.
Faith and Doubt
Every game of chance is, at heart, a very small act of hope. That sounds sentimental. It is not meant to.
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My grandmother left me a wooden mixing bowl. Not the good china, which went to my aunt, and not the jewellery, which went to my...
Mindful Living
Walk into almost any place that is used for prayer or reflection and you will find plants. Chapels have lilies.
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Several times a year, someone in the community writes to ask what I think about going to a reader.
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Three named contributors, each coming to the practice from a different angle. Every article carries a byline linked to everything else that person has written, and nothing goes up unless it describes the practice honestly, including the parts that are slow or uncomfortable.