Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[citruscurtis]

Colleen McCullough..
Author of Thorn Birds.... I think the best novel written for popular culture in the previous decades up to Amy Tan books..33 million copies though a number skewered by today readership and the novel was handed from friend to friends... which puts Margaret Mitchell in a different perspective.... Gone with the Wind and Thorn Birds were the two most common found books in estate sales.I conduct ed... but again would I rember any other authors...as the Two books were on display at the sales check out area to engage conversation

Peggy...who drove out to the ranch to pick us up for the Sunday school...who made sure we went to summer church camp...who took our youth group to Indio California for a spring break mission work with migrant labores...who gave my last trip to Disneyland in 1969
If I only had one person to meet from my past...it would be her and to ask.... how did you know that my sisters and I would change the world?

 

[PollyannaMom]

All of the ladies I routinely see on my various morning walk routes - I don't really know any of these women but we always greet each other in some friendly manner, we take notice when something changes (like use of a weighted vest), we may take a moment to remark about the positive turn in the weather, etc. It may seem silly to be grateful for such minor interactions with people I really don't know, but I feel like we're each other's cheerleaders.

Not silly at all! Those kinds of little interactions are more important than we tend to give them credit for. (I think there's even a specific name for them, but I can't remember it at the moment.)

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm going to go with women inventors -

Josephine Cochran - dishwasher (1886)

Margaret Wilcox - car heater (1893)

Mary Anderson - windshield wipers (1903)

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[bluecastle]

Famous women that I admire

Dolly Parton: she is such a shining example of the good that can be done by someone who is very wealthy

Paula Poundstone: she always makes me laugh

Yuja Wang: (only famous in the classical music world I think) one of the most amazing pianists I’ve ever heard

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Mary, human Mother of God
My beloved late Grandma
Mother Teresa