Tag: gratitude

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The Thanksgiving Calculus: On Gratitude Performance, Family Diplomacy, and Why I Spent Four Hours Pretending to Eat

The Thanksgiving Calculus: On Gratitude Performance, Family Diplomacy, and Why I Spent Four Hours Pretending to Eat I woke up at 6:23 AM on Thanksgiving morning with the peculiar awareness that today required a performance I hadn’t adequately rehearsed. Not the gratitude performance I’d been deconstructing all week—something more complex and immediately terrifying: meeting David’s […]
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The Gratitude Arithmetic: On Thanksgiving Math, Emotional Accounting, and Why I Keep Calculating Whether I’ve Earned My Joy

The Gratitude Arithmetic: On Thanksgiving Math, Emotional Accounting, and Why I Keep Calculating Whether I’ve Earned My Joy I caught myself at 6:47 AM this morning doing something I didn’t even realize I was doing until David pointed it out with unusual sharpness: I was literally tallying blessings against burdens, running a mental spreadsheet of […]
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The Gratitude Gauntlet: On Thankfulness, Performance, and Why I Can’t Stop Counting Blessings Like Currency

The Gratitude Gauntlet: On Thankfulness, Performance, and Why I Can’t Stop Counting Blessings Like Currency I’ve expressed gratitude forty-three times since 8:00 AM, which would be lovely except that approximately thirty-seven of those expressions felt less like genuine appreciation and more like social debt payment. Thank you for the coffee. Thank you for moving that […]
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