Thankful Thursday!

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

-- Eileen Caddy

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In an effort to share a bit of the joy and laughter Eileen speaks of above, this blog will be dedicated to moments of gratitude each Thursday.

I invite you to share the things you find yourself most thankful for throughout the week. Just send note, a photograph or both to me by noon on Wednesdays to be featured on Thankful Thursday.

If you didn't get a chance to submit your thankful moment this week, don't let that stop you. Just leave a comment down below. I am so excited to be able to share these special moments with all of you!

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I was watching a movie this Memorial Day when all of a sudden I heard a loud

C-R-A-C-KKKKKK! My mom yelled from her bedroom where she'd seen it fall, "Pam, there's a tree in the back yard!" Sure enough. When I opened the back door this is what I saw. There's no telling why it fell because the storms had passed, and the tree looks healthy.

After a gathering of neighbors and the arrival of my sister and her husband, my neighbor Marie, the owner of the tree said, "I am sorry." Marie," I said, "this is not your fault. This just happened."

Fortunately no one was hurt, and no property was damaged. In fact, the giant limb landed just short of my new Japanese Maple. And nestled in amongst the branches was my newly planted Flowering Crab, which had narrowly escaped being smashed. It's a bit bent over but it's still standing. I am thankful for not being in my yard at the time and that no one else was out there, especially Marie's little boy, Juhan.

Pam Pulice