Tag: love
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Day 5: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven things you have learned
Today’s task is to reflect on eleven things you have learned. Be it from formal education, life lessons, pearls of wisdom, on the job experience, or any other method or way of learning. There are so many things and ways one can learn. I found this an interesting and curious gratitude prompt. To be able…
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Day 3: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven local businesses
For day three, the prompt was to express gratitude and name eleven businesses, and bonus was to write Google Reviews for three of them. As it happens, I wrote two reviews already in the past couple months for two of the companies I worked with on the recent renovation to our home. These businesses are…
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Day 2: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven experiences
August 2 saw us swing to experiences. Ones that moved you – that had a profound impact on your life. They didn’t have to be large or divine in nature, something small (like a picnic with a friend or the first time your baby kicked you) but something you felt was significant to you. Evidently,…
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Day 1: Eight Days of Gratitude (Lion’s Gate Portal) – eleven people
The prompt for August 1 was to write about eleven people, past and present, for which you were grateful. People that you were grateful for but who also made a significant impact on your life. To share not only who they were but why you were grateful for them and to be specific in the…
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Welcome to my 51st Year!
Today, I turn (turned) 51. It is completely surreal, let me tell you. I remember 18. Heck, I remember turning 10. I remember many stops between 10 and now. For example, 30, we had moved into the house and I was alone. While there were family activities planned around the weekend, the actual day, I…
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Day 28: Past Love
Things you love about your past. Now, when I first read this prompt (at the first of the month), my gut response was “Not a hell of a lot.” Now that I’ve had the month to mull it over, I do feel differently. ‘The past’ doesn’t just mean childhood or teenage years, my 20s, etc.…
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Day 27: Present love!
Things you love about the present. I love that I am working to take care of myself. Whether that is through taking classes on self-betterment, finding time to connect with people important to me, taking Lily for a walk, or eating a delicious meal. Finding and figuring out what is important to me is truly…
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Day 25: Birthday!

Your favourite birthday or celebration. I like birthdays. I like throwing birthday parties. Specifically, children’s birthday parties. When my son was small, starting with his first birthday, I started planning and throwing fairly elaborate parties. Handmade invitations, decorations, cakes. His first was Pocoyo. Second – Mega Blocks. Third – dinosaurs. Fourth – race cars. Fifth…
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Day 22: Life changing decisions
A decision that changed your life in a positive way. While this is still a ‘work in progress’, a few years ago, I realized I was waiting for life to start. A weird realization for a 40something to realized, I know. It is kind of hard to explain. I was living life, going through the…
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Day 20: Life experience
A unique positive life experience you’ve had. This may seem a little weird at first, but stick with me… I’ve mentioned before I was married when I just weeks before I turned 23, divorced at 24. I mentioned my (ex) mother-in-law was quite the pickle of a lady who, for the most part, despised me.…