#grateful — Public Fediverse posts
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AGED FIVE, I GOT
FAR ENOUGH AWAY TO SEE 💎When I was about five years old, I spent two years in a children’s sanatorium.
At the time, I had no idea what that would mean for the rest of my life. Looking back now, I think it was one of the great turning points of my childhood.
And strangely enough, I am grateful for it.
For two years, I was removed from my family and placed somewhere else entirely. Other adults. Other children. Other routines. Other ways of being. It gave me something I could not possibly have named at five.
DISTANCE.
When I eventually returned home, I had already discovered something enormously important. My family was not the whole world. I could stand outside it and see it.
And what I saw, increasingly, was that there was very little about my family that felt real or loving. In fact, I think I experienced more genuine warmth with some of the nurses and children at the sanatorium than I ever did at home. There was family in the biological sense. But I don’t think there was much family in the deeper sense at all.
Years later, at about fifteen, I told my parents I was homosexual.
That was the end of home.
I didn’t leave after a teenage argument and come back a few weeks later. There was nowhere to come back to. I had left because I had to. And when I left, it was over.
I sometimes watch films about people who grow up in brutal, loveless families and later become terribly damaged adults. Psychopaths. Serial killers. People whose childhoods seem almost designed to produce catastrophe. And occasionally I recognise something.
NOT WHAT THEY BECAME.
The beginning. The absence. The emotional coldness. And the fear. The strange knowledge, very young, that whatever happened next, you were largely on your own.
There was my sister.
For a long time, I think I allowed myself to believe that because she was still there, some part of the family remained. But even that relationship eventually forced me to look again. Sometimes the hardest thing is not losing a family. It is realising that what you thought you had may never really have been there. And yet something else was there.
Some capacity to stand outside it. To see it without having to pretend it was something else. Perhaps that began in the sanatorium. At five years old, without knowing it, I got far enough away to see. I learned that the family I had been born into was not the measure of reality.
And for that, strangely enough, I am truly grateful.
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#Childhood #Family #LGBTQ #Survival #Perspective #LifeStory #love #security #grateful #warmth #pride
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Things I'm grateful for today:
Having a home, where I can rest as I deal with yet more med side effects.
Low fibro pain so at least I can sleep as much as I need.
Lentil curry and rice that I prepared in bulk so I don't need to cook today.
My loves, making me laugh and supporting me in this journey.
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Sitting in that odd and yet exciting place picking out a book having just finished one. #books #reading #bookstodon #grateful #bliss
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What's the most beautiful place you've ever seen in person?
#mentalwellbeing #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #hope #ymhc #gratitude #gratitudeattitude #gratitudepractice #grateful -
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Surprised Gifts! 🎁
Before teaching, Josie from my SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center blessed me with an amazing garden harvest—basil, eggplant, peppers, cucumber, and zucchini! 🥒🍆
I ❤️ this community and the thoughtful generosity. - Coach Julio
#garden #MaldenMA #SeniorFitness #GardenHarvest #CommunityFirst #Grateful #food #nutrition #kindness
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Tell me something good that happened to you today [no matter how small it may seem] By @themindgeek
#gratitude #gratitudeattitude #gratitudepractice #grateful #mentalhealth #ymhc -
"Before you go to sleep tonight, reflect on the day behind you and bring to mind: one person who supported you, one moment you're grateful for, one way life cared for you today. Then drift to sleep with a full heart."
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Thanks for that, mate. I'm relatively new here, just feeling my way, so all assistance is warmly appreciated ...
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ORDINARY GRACE 💎
Brunch was good today.
It was cleaning Sunday, so we had hamburgers at Grill’d.
Afterwards, I walked from North Hobart into the city to meet Pete.
Now I am home, fresh from breathwork, feeling grateful and wondering what I could possibly have done to deserve such abundance.
Probably nothing.
Deserving belongs to the world of deals and bargains.
Be good, get rewarded.
Work hard, earn the prize.
But this does not feel like a prize.
It feels like life simply giving itself.
A clean house.
A delicious hamburger.
A long #walk through quiet #Hobart.
Breath moving through my body.
Peter.
Two small white #pups.
A #tranquil afternoon.
Nothing dramatic.
Nothing earned.
Just ordinary #grace.
Perhaps grace is not the great event we are waiting for.
Perhaps it is this.
Life is already here in all its glory, before we decide whether we deserve it or not...
#Brunch #Sunday #hamburgers #Grill’d #grateful #home #abundance #city #world #reward #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #cooking #AI
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"It's quite possible that, right now, in this very moment, someone is thinking of you and feeling grateful. Maybe for something you did. Maybe for the way you are. Or maybe simply because you exist and their life has been better for knowing you.” ~Lori Deschene
#gratitude #gratitudeattitude #gratitudepractice #grateful #gratefulheart #mentalhealth #ymhc -
Every morning I start over. I’ve decided this is OK. I am #grateful for these reoccurring opportunities.
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Things They Don’t Tell You When A Pet Dies
Life changes when a pet dies. In our case, our dog Trixie died yesterday. They don’t tell you life changes, beyond the immediate, obvious loss. But, it does. There’s probably twenty ways life is different this morning than it was before yesterday in our household. Like, this piece of posterboard lying on the kitchen floor, right now, that I just took a photo of. Until this morning, this posterboard was lining the bottom half of the window next to our front door. It was there because […]https://carolineprice.com/2026/07/19/things-they-dont-tell-you-when-a-pet-dies/
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You're amazing, fediverse! Since losing my old account yesterday, you've helped me find so many of my precious mutuals, as well as new ones! I appreciate you all so much!❤️ Please keep boosting so I can find the rest, and rebuild, and also, if you followers my previous account with he same name, please check you're following me now. Thank you🥰
#thankyou #amazing #IloveFediverse #ILoveMastodon #grateful #loveyou #boostsappreciated
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"It is one thing to be impersonally grateful that something happened and another thing to be personally grateful to someone for doing it.
These are not the same."
https://theconversation.com/how-to-be-grateful-to-someone-even-when-you-really-dont-want-to-285311
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All Dogs Go To Heaven, This One Especially
Trixie Price 2012 - 2026https://carolineprice.com/2026/07/18/all-dogs-go-to-heaven-this-one-especially/
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Oh, Trixie…
This little girlie is slowing down. Trixie turned 14 at the end of May. She has surpassed in her longevity all of all our wildest expectations; this is the dog who had major surgery for bladder stones in 2019. She has been on some form of prescription food since then. Porter was pretty sure she wouldn’t last long after her left for his first year of college, and here we just sent off his proof of rental insurance for his apartment for his third year of college. I know Porter wanted to […] -
Being told you're appreciated is one of the simplest yet most incredible things you can ever hear.
#gratitude #gratitudeattitude #gratitudepractice #grateful #mentalhealth #ymhc #kindness #kindnessmatters #compassion -
The 2026 Writer’s Retreat
I am writing this post on notebook paper, old-school journal style, sitting in the Savannah Convention Center while Jared finishes his GAMEIS Conference. We had to be out of the hotel by 11 AM and the conference doesn’t end until noon. I have this gorgeous view for the morning, sitting by a massive wall of windows in a corporate seating style rocking chair I turned toward the window. The weather and the River Street view are both gorgeous. It has been such a fun week with Jared in […]https://carolineprice.com/2026/07/10/the-2026-writers-retreat/
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The Severing
July 8, 2026. I didn’t set out for today to be a before and after day. And really, not much has changed about life. Except it also feels like everything has changed. I used Byron Katie’s The Work to figure out that the entire past four years, I have been attempting to do something with my subconscious that I haven’t really succeeded in the past 28 years to do: I have been attempting to decide it was okay to not want someone to matter anymore. And, more: I have been attempting to […]
