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Kitchen Table Kibitzing May 7, 2023 [1]
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Date: 2023-05-07
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Gratitude Revealed
The Journey Center in Santa Rosa is a place for spiritual exploration and transformation, rooted in the contemplative tradition. We have attended events at the center and/or sponsored by them. We recently heard of a movie event sponsored by the center, to be shown at a local theater and decided to attend. The movie is called Gratitude Revealed, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, who also directed Fantastic Fungi.
Readers of Daily Kos are perforce interested in news, and news is fraught nowadays, almost to the exclusion of positives. But we here have Good News Roundup, pootie diaries , Daily Bucket, and other charming stories. And in those, and in the hundreds of special groups, there is hope.
You might find local showings in the next few months, but if you have an hour, you can see it here. The movie was wonderful, refreshing, and inspiring. Hard to describe; the website says: Louie’s “intimate conversations with everyday people, thought leaders and personalities reveal gratitude is a proven pathway back from the disconnection we feel in our lives — disconnection from ourselves, our planet, and each other.”
Having seen the movie, my mind has of course reflected upon what I’m grateful for. I have never been far away from nature and being aware of the miracle of plants. But I have to take care not to be subsumed into the fraught reality and stay focussed on the wonderful world. Louis knew.
Grateful for:
Music and musicians; Knopfler and Mozart have given me such joy.
People who know how to make things.
The opportunity to garden, and grow tomatoes.
Retirement
Medics, and their choices of specialties.
My all-too-short time with Louie the cat.
Plumbers and Electricians
Markos, Daily Kos, and all my friends here.
Restaurants, and good food in general.
And so much more. Do y’all have any special things for which you are grateful? Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment. I try to be mindful, but I suppose gratefulness is some sort of interpretation, who knows?
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