Grattitude – the Conversations 256

08 Oct

365 Feasts!(What If We Were Grateful Every Single Day Of The Year?)

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"Never let the phrase thank you stand naked and alone..." This post was written in 2020, when my dear grandmother was still alive. May her soul Rest In Peace. . The other day, my cousin randomly said "We should celebrate Thanksgiving this year Jaja. We should have a feast!" My Jaja (grandmother) looks at him, a confused expression on her face, and asks , "Thanksgiving. What's that?" So I try explaining to her that it's a tradition, a day where people celebrate, and are mindfully grateful for the good things in their lives and eat! Really eat!" "So it's Christmas?"…

18 Jan

The Year of Standing in the Sun…

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“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” ― Shaun Hick I am seated on hard concrete, With green fields behind me and blue waters ahead of me, I am lost in the rhythmic movements of the ripples across the water that I can see from where I am seated. It is 6:30 in the morning. It is cold, cold enough that when I look down at my arms, I can see a dozen goose bumps breaking out across my bare skin. The wind greets concrete and skin…

28 Dec

The 2019 Gratitude Countdown (People. Things. Events…)

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What a year! What an absolute rollercoaster of a ride these twelve months have been. There are so many people and so many things that I am grateful for, so many that I cannot possibly exhaust all of them in a single post. So I'm borrowing a few words from the small notebook that lays on my writing table. I hope, maybe, that these words will give you a glimpse into all that I am grateful for this year: January: 2019 I am grateful to still be alive. A few months ago I fought what I still think was the toughest…

05 Dec

It’s the Small Things in Life….

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This article was originally written in 2019, it was influenced by the greatest love of my life, my late grandmother who sadly, passed away last year. Read on, she had a lot to teach me. You might learn a thing or two. Before "I looked in the mirror today. I hadn't looked in one for a long long time. So today I looked." She swallows harshly, looking down at her hands, playing with the wrinkles surrounding her knuckles, "What I saw was...off!. I saw age. I saw a head full of white. I saw a face filled with valleys. There are lines running…

19 Sep

It’s Our Anniversary!!!!!

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Two Years!!! It has been two years since I launched this blog! Wow! And what incredible two years they have been. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing when I set off. Infact I created the Conversations256 in 2016, wrote one post and then deleted it. I gathered enough courage to relaunch it in mid 2017! I had to teach myself everything about Wordpress (Thank you Google and YouTube) I knew why I was starting this, but I had no idea, none! About where this was heading! If anyone had told me, two years ago, that this site…

30 Dec

A Special Thank You From Me To You…

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I started this year with absolutely no certainty that I was going to write as much as I have this year. The posts may seem few and far between but for a person who had stopped writing a year or so ago; those few posts are a major victory for me. But I couldn’t have done it without you. Yes you. All of you that have granted me the tremendous gift of your attention. By giving me your attention for a few minutes every week you’ve given me your precious time. Time that you could have used to do something…

03 May

The True Meaning Of Life…

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“No man is an island,” and indeed it is true. Great people leave something behind. They realize that no one can make it through this world alone. Even when great athletes are awarded medals for their work, even when great artistes are awarded for their excellence, they never forget that their success was because of many people who, together with them, put in just as much effort, without whom, their success would have been possible. I personally, can never fully repay all those who have helped me along the way, but the least I can do to honor their…

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