seeing in the best light
"Frame" and "reframe" have been a recurrent theme lately.
- Trying to provide for family, or wanting to deplete fossil fuels to the point of no return?
- Dressing provocatively, or wanting to maximize vitamin D absorption?
- Sharing the benefit of hard-earned knowledge, or trying to sell more books by whatever means?
- Deepening my mindfulness, or starving myself?
I'll be writing more about this, but let's start by looking at the word "frame" itself.
Written by Ela Harrison
on Tuesday, 27 January 2015.
Posted in All About Words
It _had_ to be word of the week, didn't it?
Gratitude. Thanksgiving. Gratitude (Latin gratitudo) is a state of mind. Thanksgiving is a direct translation of the Latin gratias actio -- action, specifically a performance, enactment, of thanks.
Latin gratias means "thanks," but also it means "grace," in all the multi-splendored nuances of that word. Old-English thanc instead is cognate with "think" -- thanksgiving is an enaction of your state of thoughts.
Giving thanks and feeling gratitude--are they the same for you? This is a tail that can wag the dog--the action can lead to the feeling.
Written by Ela Harrison
on Wednesday, 26 November 2014.
Posted in All About Words, Mindfulness