Four years ago, I woke up on a brisk November day to presidential election results that felt staggering. Donald Trump had won, and he would be our new president. To almost all of my local friends and neighbors, this was cause for celebration. Northwest Georgia was unabashedly on the Trump Train, leaving me feeling very […]
A Gratitude Exercise: Finding Joy in Your Journey
Most of us have taken hard paths that we later regret . . .mainly because they were so hard! It’s easy to look back and imagine an alternative that would have been obstacle-free, but that is neither realistic nor helpful. As Gandalf observed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: “There are no safe paths in this part of the […]