Archive for the 'Giving Thanks' Category

TEMPTING FATE: I’m thankful for my problems by Jean Snow VanOrden

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

This past week I’ve been posting “I’m Thankful for” messages on my facebook and twitter accounts.   Given how fortunate I am,  it seems appropriate to proclaim my gratitude often and publicly.   Here in Alaska as the dark descends and the cold deepens I am very grateful for my cozy home.  Grateful for warm boots, a [...]

THANK YOU by Amara Pearl VanOrden: A Prologue to the Thanksgiving Season

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Thank you music
Thank you to all the poets, singers, artists
All the creative minds ever imagined and brought to past
Thank you Picasso, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michael Angelo…
Thank you Plato, Socrates, Aristotle….
Thank you Sparta and Athens
The 300 warriors at Thermoplyae
Thank you to Shelley and her Frankenstein
Thank you Shakespeare and his Hamlet
Thank you Emily Dickinson
Thank you Jane Austen
Thank [...]

THANK YOU by Amara Pearl VanOrden

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Thank you music
Thank you to all the poets, singers, artists
All the creative minds ever imagined and brought to past
Thank you Picasso, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michael Angelo…
Thank you Plato, Socrates, Aristotle….
Thank you Sparta and Athens
The 300 warriors at Thermoplyae
Thank you to Shelley and her Frankenstein
Thank you Shakespeare and his Hamlet
Thank you Emily Dickinson
Thank you Jane Austen
Thank [...]

GIVING THANKS every minute of every day by Jean Snow VanOrden

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

A little over a year ago I flew home to Anchorage, Alaska from completing cancer treatment in Salt Lake City.   I was overly thin, exhausted, my voice was hoarse, my mouth inflamed and sore, and I still received most of my nutrition through a tube in my stomach.  I was a wreck.
Yet I was thrilled [...]

OUR LIVES ARE NOT OUR OWN ALONE: a veterans day salute by Jean Snow VanOrden

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

For as long as I can remember, I have felt strongly that my life is not simply my own.  Certainly my upbringing as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had much to do with that.  I was taught and have come to know that their is a God, that His [...]