Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[PollyannaMom]

My grandma - who taught me how to reuse everything

My 7th grade math teacher - who nurtured my confidence and made math really fun

My elementary school librarian - who taught me how to how the most out of the library

 

[bluecastle]

My elementary school music teacher and my choir director: both depended on me to sing harmony without straying to the melody like most kids would do. They did a lot to help my self-esteem.

My 6th grade teacher: she believed I could be a writer. (yet, I became a teacher instead!)

My daughter, as well as all my students, taught me so much about myself.

 

[PollyannaMom]

It is...

and also...


so for Today's Topic (Wed, 5/7) choose whichever of those inspires you (or mix & match)

 

[slo]

Good Wednesday Morning!

#1 - Long Bike Rides With My Grandpa - I have the best memories of my grandpa and I taking long bike rides when I was kid. He didn’t believe in sitting around, so him and I were always doing things together.

#2 - Riding My Bike To Friends Houses - I rode my bike everywhere as a kid. I was allowed to go to any friends house in my subdivision. I wasn’t allowed to ride my bike in the dark, so when the street lights came on is when I had to come home.

#3 - Brown Paper Bags - I always make sure I have lots of these at home, because I use them all the time. Main thing I use them for is recycling - there’s a brown bag next to the kitchen garbage can so we can easily put the recycling in it and when it’s full, then the full bag goes in the recycling can outside.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

No bike as a kid and lived off a street that was super busy like a small highway so no bike riding here …. We ( my friends and me ) walked everywhere we went and where I live there’s no sidewalk you’re lucky if there’s shoulders on the roads you’re literally walking alongside highways to get where you wanna go because you know we didn’t have cars either we had to walk
My friends didn’t have bikes either so if we want to get to somebody’s house we walked we cut through subdivisions when you knew all the shortcuts so I have lots of fun memories of us planning out where we wanted to go and how we were gonna get there and meet up halfway and then cutting through somebody’s yard to get into a shortcut so we can get to a store or to a restaurant or something or the summer we all had to take drivers ed and all of us walking up to the school so we could take driver ed then all this walking home now keep in mind we we’re all walking alongside a highway to get home - can you imagine kids doing that these days? I know I never would allowed my kids to do that!!!

Brown paper bags - absolutely love them not only are they great for bringing your groceries home but they’re always nice to have a few around when you need to wrap a package to send it in the mail! You could always find a good use for a brown paper bag

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Morning

I will always smile to remember my beloved late grandpa was who taught me to ride my red bike

Dear Slo and dear WDWEPCOT, dad and I use brown paper lunch bags daily. He brings refridgerated food in an insulated lunch bag and extra pudding cups for me and dessert for himself in the paper bag. YEARS ago, my beloved late grandma made covers for my school books out of brown paper grocery bags.

Amazon and other packages that are delivered sure are handy to get.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

The kids' first good bikes and the greenbelts - When we moved to this house, we realized the kids would have some days where they'd need to get themselves to and from school. The greenbelts leading to their respective schools meant very little time on the actual road with the dangers of traffic and good bikes meant peace of mind that there would be fewer issues.

Office bike - I have a stationary bike in my office that's been instrumental in several of my journeys to recapture better health.

Kid bike seat - When I was young, my dad used to bike all over the place with me in one of those kiddie seats tethered to his 10-speed. It was always such a cool feeling to go riding all over.

 

[bluecastle]

Memories of my grandpa's bicycle store in Brooklyn

Loved my bicycle and the independence it gave me, riding to the library and filling up my baskets with books, or going to the pier and watching the seagulls

I appreciate well-packed items from amazon and other retailers. Every now and then, Bath and Bodywork’s disappoints me by randomly throwing all the bottles in a box, but when things are packed well, I am very grateful.

 

[PollyannaMom]

When something comes in a "really good box" that you know you'll reuse

When my cat claims a box and is just so cute about it

When my mom used to send care packages in college

 

[PollyannaMom]

Several celebrity birthdays today. For inspiration, I picked -



Today's Topic (Thu, 5/8) - 3 movies you're grateful for

 

[WDWEPCOT]

But this is a hard one to narrow it down to three I’m gonna try and pick three that I watch over and over again because I think they’re really good or really funny -if they’re on TV I always watch them and I’ve probably seen them 100 times

America sweethearts
The birdcage
Meet me in St. Louis
Gone with the wind
It’s a wonderful life
Great Outdoors

Just about any movie with Walter Matthau in it -
Grumpy old man / all of them
Out To Sea
Odd Couple
Analyze this
Analyze that
It happened one night
William Powell and Myrna Loy did a series of movies I never miss them when they’re on TV
The Thin Man movie series - 6 movies
I can’t wait to Read everybody answers

 

[slo]

Happy Thursday Friends

#1 - The Lion King - Because..Can You Feel thr Love Tonight was played at our wedding for us to dance to with our bridal party.

#2 - Tarzan - Because.. You’ll Be In My Heart used to be mine and DD26’s song

#3 - Monster’s Inc - Because..If I Didn’t Have You is mine and DD21’s song

 

[flyingdumbo127]

This is a hard question!

Two atypical Hallmark movies that were faith based and very touching were The Gift of Peace and The Blessing Bracelet.

A couple of not as known Christmas movies that I thought had a wonderful message are, The Perfect Gift and Miracle on Hwy 34.

I hope each of you will enjoy a movie this weekend

 

[citruscurtis]

4 movies that have been inspirational....though not the 3 if I only had 3 movies to watch the rest of my life.

FINDING FORRESTER



written by a man who grew up in the middle of nowhere eastern Oregon.....about the projects and young black men on the east coast. Mike Rich wrote the screenplay while working as morning news anchor for KINK radio in Portland, Oregon. He entered the screenplay into a contest and won...selected to direct famous movie director Gus Van Sant who had his start in oregon and director of Goodwill hunting. Sean Connery signed on to support the apprentice project and became my favorite Connery movie. Matt Damon appears at the very end of the movie...once again his support of novice screen play writing....and you all know the movie because of the ending song....Somewhere over the rainbow/what a wonderful world ukulele instrumental song that became a hit and popular cover song. And that is just the technical support that is inspirational .....the screenplay about an intelligent high school student wanting to be a basketball star but has so many hurdles ...screenplay about overcoming the present and the past.... the song always brings tears to my emotions.



FIELD OF DREAMS



using the game of errors....Baseball....to metaphor the angst of how we lived our lives. The music is fantastic and once again the ending scene with his father brings me to sobs. I find it inspirational because how our struggles can be overcome. James Earl Jones is fantastic in his role. Each scene melds into another scene. And the ending....the long string of car lights...we are all in this together.



TOY STORY 1 and Toy Story 3....have not watched past 3 and 2 not so inspirational



A raggedy bunch of forgotten toys ...become us the viewers....how
we were once significant ...now sit around on the floor or stored away in box or shelf...to discover that the future can regenerate us ...microwave ovens....internet...cellphones...self driving cars... We all started with the "claw"...a hand, a gift, a want......then on to adventure we went leaving childhood dreams/nightmares ( the easter egg carpet in toy story1 at the bully house) and then Pixar took us into the darkness of Toy Story 3 ....while Toy Story 3 was having its tragic ending, ...I began to cry...My son says " Dad are you crying....its a animated movie?"...I can't help it..God made me strong...Tall....helpful... but he humbled me with a severe crying talent at any tiny emotion. I could not figured out Woody and his gang were going to survive the fiery furnace....but we were told...easter egg...at the very beginning of Toy Story 1...THE CLAW...THE CLAW...salvation awaits us all.....that claw scene is in my top 5 best movie scenes ever...we should have seen it coming...at least I didn't.

AMERICAN GRAFFITI

The most significant movie in cinema history and should be an inspiration to us all in whatever lays ahead of us. A lonely/car geek/visionary young man in the middle of nowhere Modesto, California 1950s/60s had this vision about making movies . Have you ever been to Modesto, California..... even in your imagination???...what fertile ground did George Lucas find.....???? . Inspirational in that after leaving the 1973 drive-in theater that my sister and friends visited for the first time without adults ...was perhaps our parents and their dreams on the big screen...??? Inspirational in that an actor who had to do carpentry with a scar under his lower lip to support himself during movie stints. The movie has stuck with me because of the main character...Curt...he wanted to be elsewhere....though chasing a impossible dream in his hometown...he saw the future elsewhere...the movie inspired me to look beyond Stayton, Oregon

 

[citruscurtis]

.....as I was leaving the library where i typed the above....the long glass case that leads to the front door.....Star Wars....in all of its history....graffiti of pop culture displayed....inspirational to all walk along that glass case...library was closed May 4th...but opened Tuesday to Saturday....the American dream....gratitude by all who have around me and the 23 computer screens.

 

[bluecastle]

But this is a hard one to narrow it down to three I’m gonna try and pick three that I watch over and over again because I think they’re really good or really funny -if they’re on TV I always watch them and I’ve probably seen them 100 times

America sweethearts
The birdcage
Meet me in St. Louis
Gone with the wind
It’s a wonderful life
Great Outdoors

Just about any movie with Walter Matthau in it -
Grumpy old man / all of them
Out To Sea
Odd Couple
Analyze this
Analyze that
It happened one night
William Powell and Myrna Loy did a series of movies I never miss them when they’re on TV
The Thin Man movie series - 6 movies
I can’t wait to Read everybody answers

I loved the Thin Man movies! Loved Asta. What an amazing dog actor

 

[bluecastle]

Hmm these might not be inspiring, but they are definitely movies that if I happen upon them, I will watch again and again

Galaxy Quest

My Cousin Vinny

Ok, so one is inspirational..To Kill A Mockingbird

 

[PollyannaMom]

Straight from the picture - grateful for the memory of the first time I saw Jaws. Dad and Uncle M--- let all is kids watch it with them while the moms were out.

Grateful for The Sound of Music because it's one of the few tapes (yes, I'm that old) that I had with me at college. TV reception was horrible, so it was nice to be able to pop something familiar into the VCR as background.

Piglet's Big Movie - because it was the first one I took DS to in the theater when he was little.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Funny that you mention the dog the dog is named after the Astors they used to own so much property in Manhattan and it’s a playoff their name I didn’t know that I just read a book about them and they had that in there as one of the fun facts about them
Because I read a book about the Vanderbilt and then I read a book about the Astros both very interesting since they were both started about the same time one was old money and one was new money but it was a very interesting and the dog from the thin man is a playoff the name Astors
But I do enjoy those movies they are really funny

 

[citruscurtis]

Ok, so one is inspirational..To Kill A Mockingbird

Atticus was ranked number 1 movie hero by AFI and movie 25 best of all time..AFI...per research and is a frequent jeopardy response