Thanksgiving 2010

This is my first blogged event. I'm going to make up a name for this: blog 'n party.

My computer was out on Thanksgiving open to the blog. Everyone was invited to contribute.  It was fun.  'm enjoying it even more now. (Even the soup from the leftover turkey has been digested.)

Welcome to Thanksgiving.  Feel free to add a post of your own.  You might say what you're thankful for or anything else.  If you know how, insert a picture, a link, even a video.  Later we'll see what we've done.

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Thanksgiving is a time to remember all the good things we have in our life and give thanks. I am thankful to be surrounded by people who care about me and are so amazing. I am also appreciative to have my health and education and everything I usually take for granted. Happy Thanksgiving.

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I have sat in the subway and seen my reflection in the window and felt good.

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Food was good.
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I think being thankful is a gift to myself.  I am thankful when I see the beautiful shapes and colors
I see in the sky.  This year I've been noticing the yellow leaves in front of the dark green trees and find it beautiful.  I'm grateful for the love that has been multiplying through new friends in the last few years and the sturdy sweet love of my family that is always with me.


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I am thankful that I have a friend like Madeline who always will be there, never judge me and help me to grow and appreciate the happenings around me. I also noticed a beautiful red tree in the park the other day. I just stood in the middle of the street and started yelling "look at that tree, look at that tree! It's amazing.!"

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Sharing photos with my friends Otto and Harry

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Three clowns resting from the bigtop circuits :)

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Fat Albert Otto

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Quotes on becoming by Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow, was influential in the understanding of the drive to become.  Here are quotes by him to inspire you to become who you are meant to be.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. 
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.


there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.



Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. 

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.