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The Hardest Day & An Attitude of Gratitude
 This week, in honor of Thanksgiving, I share with you a very personal blog post written by my Marketing Design Specialist (who also happens to be my sister).  I don't normally post about things so personal, but it seems appropriate this week.
Thanksgiving is upon us.  Thanksgiving was meant to be a national holiday in which we express gratitude for survival, bountiful harvests, divine goodness, and to commemorate the feast held at Plymouth in 1621 by the Pilgrim colonists and members of the Wampanoag people.   However, retailers have successfully retrained our brains to define Thanksgiving as the opening marker of holiday shopping.  (As I type this, my inbox is blowing up with emails from retailers announcing sales and discounts the likes of which my wallet has never seen. Insert Sarcastic tone.)  For some reason this year I am painfully aware of this fact.  It's disheartening.  So, my goal this Thanksgiving season is to create an attitude of gratitude.
It's so easy to settle into the role of 'victim'.  Life is hard and it doesn't slow down for you when you are feeling overwhelmed.  It can feel like you are in a constant state of just barely "treading water".  Every once in a while you come ... more

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