What Are People in Our Community Grateful For?
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Kylie Harris (from Tazmania): I am grateful for my family, my job, my house, for being given a second chance at life
Andrew Kissel: I’m most grateful for my job and my freedom.
Steven Padilla: “Life, family and friends”
Frank Qu: “Mental health support groups and family”
Amanda Renee: “That I am purple, dye incident, that I am getting to know my shadow self, my children”
Justin Rodriguez: “I’m grateful for simply existing and being alive, even if it comes with hardship.”
Issa Ibrahim: “I’m grateful to have my mind and sanity, be it through meditation, belief in God or both, because it allows me to be productive, properly socialized and to have friends.”
Gino Yu: “Existence. Family.”
Kathryn Fazio: “I am grateful for my friends, good kind people in the world—like you.”
Richard Lauder: “I’m grateful for supportive friends like you who appreciate my strengths and are not afraid to point out my weaknesses, who share their broad visions of a better world and their pragmatic approaches to improving it, and in particular, our connections with one another. Your caring and encouragement is so moving I have been at a loss to respond.”
Dmitriy Gutkovich: “The health of my family. All things are blessings as long as we are all healthy.”
Michael Skinner: “Music, life, my daughters, my friends, knowing wonderful folks like yourself Dan as a friend and fellow advocate”
Max Guttman: “ebiking”
Fred Arthur Tenzer: “I am grateful to live in a location that has ethnic diversity and easy access to at least some of my favorite non-Orthodox synagogues”
Greg Parnell: “Something Every Day: But it starts with my Recovery. Through Discovery…All Things are Possible”
Harvey Rosenthal: “My wife Wendy, my daughters and furry ones”
Peter Murphy: “I’m grateful for my mother. She isn’t perfect, and we’ve both made mistakes along the way. I’m just happy that as an independent adult, we have a positive relationship. I’m grateful for the teachers I’ve had that left an impact on me. I’m grateful if I’ve also had a positive effect on others. I’m grateful to have a roof over my head and food to eat, and I’m grateful that there are good people in this world and opportunities to learn and do things that interest me. I’m grateful to sometimes feel comfort in solitude. And I’m grateful because I’m not afraid of change”
Chaplain Sandra Mitchell: “I am grateful for a spared life and tender mercies. I am grateful for patience, perseverance, purpose and resiliency. I am grateful for heritage connectivity and Faith that works. I am grateful for the unspeakable JOY that surpasses all understanding. And most of ALL The Love THAT GOD EMBRACES ME WITH WITH MY PEERS”
Corinita Reyes: “Opportunities that have been arising to grow my artist identity”
Tamara: “I am grateful for a roof over my head. And for you Dan because you come up with ways to keep us all meaningfully focused on our path towards self-improvement and engaged with our world.”
Bluebird: “Being alive as an old lady and generally happy.”
Eva Juliette: “I’m grateful for another beautiful day.”
Digna Quinones: “I am grateful for being able to breathe, the sunlight on my face and for being able to experience this chosen life.”
Josh Wallace: “I’m grateful not to walk this path in life alone.”
Jenna Ritter: “I’m grateful for my loving, patient partner who supports me through my ups and downs. These are such crazy times.”
Stania Cortright: “I’m grateful for my friends”
Noelle Pollet: “God in my life first and foremost. That my son and his family feel the same way. And that I live in a community with people crazy enough to believe we’re called to ring in ‘the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth…’ It’s an amazing ride!”
David Granirer: “My family”
Virginia Simpkins: “Every morning as I wake, I begin expressing thanks to God: thank You that I have a comfy bed, that I can walk, that I have coffee and creamer. Thank You, Lord, for my beautiful apartment, my two closest friends, Lauri and Ken. I’m convinced I miss numerous good things that He gives.”
Craig Bayer: “A good landing at JFK, just arrived from Seattle”
Gary Levin: “My Friends and my Cats; my Home Health Aide and my affiliation with CIADNY and Harvey Rosenthal and the Alliance for Rights and Recovery”
Peer Galaxy: “We are super grateful for the amazing universe of peer support and people who care and share!!!!”
Jenny Chan: My Friends, my family and Fountain House community. Also grateful for being an artist at the Fountain House Gallery
Daniel Wasserman: I’m grateful that I can see a Psychologist on zoom twice a month; that I have contacts in a most important 12-Step program, SIA; that I have numerous subject interests that add to my book collections; that I have the ability to write; that I had long, varied careers starting at an early age – despite many mental-health challenges; that I have the desire to travel more out of the USA; that I still desire a few close, Spiritual Friendships; that I desire strongly a personal 1-1 special relationship; and that I am a part of the Friendship Squad
Orna Nahum: אסירת תודה על המשפחה שיש לי, על הבריאות הטובה שלי, על הערבות ההדדית שישנה בישראל
Translation: “I am grateful for the family I have, for my good health, and for the mutual community support and aid that exists in Israel.”
Mark Gepheart: “Besides life, it’s music and the color green”
