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Everyday in December, I’m noticing one thing that I am grateful for, celebrating, proud of, or loving about myself from this past year. Join me?

For the past few weeks, I’ve loved that each morning I took time to connect with things that I’m grateful for and celebrating. I’m going to continue the practice throughout December (and quite possibly beyond), but from here on will be reflecting offline. Because above all, right now I am grateful for the chance to unplug. 

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Everyday in December, I’m noticing one thing that I am grateful for, proud of, and/or celebrating as I look back on 2010. Join me?

December 11: Grateful: Generous People

I am grateful for the many teachers I have had in my life this year. Some of them are formal instructors, some are friends, some are in my professional network. Some of them are paid for their teaching, others share their wisdom freely. Some of them don’t even know me, or that I read their books or their blogs, and that I learn from them.

I am grateful for the generous people who have taught me.

p.s. One of them is Tanya Geisler, who wrote about being generous to a fault (the woman lives it!). 

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December 10: Grateful: Friends Making Music Together

Some of the musical moments I’ve enjoyed most in the last year:

• gathered around a binder of guitar tabs in Vancouver with my friends Jess and Ian, playing and singing
• May 24 weekend at a cottage with three guitars, a banjo, and beautiful voices
• singing and jamming with Inaam and Sara… everything from 90s shoegazing to Teenage Dream. Yes, we did.
• piano stores that have let me waltz in and play their pianos for ten minutes and then waltz out.

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December 5 and 6: Gratitude: Public Transit and ViaRail

Particularly during a month when Toronto’s entire transit plan is threatened, and during a year when mayoral candidates called my beloved St. Clair Right-of-Way a fiasco, I’m reminded of how grateful I am for the public transit that does exist in this city.

And given how often in the last four months I have run off to Ottawa to visit the man I love, I’m also immensely grateful for ViaRail. Train travel makes me happy. 

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December 3: Gratitude: My Sister’s Editing Skills

All year long, any time I’ve written a newsletter or created a client form, I’ve sent it first to my sister, so that she could cast her keen eye over it. Seriously, who else would have caught that the past participle of “whet” is “whetted”? 

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December 1: Gratitude: Finger Puppets

Fish on Friday's Political Finger Puppets

I’m grateful for finger puppets. They made the best gifts all year long, and made me laugh more than I thought possible. Also, adults remember how to play when they put puppets on their fingers. 

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