“Gratitude doesn’t change our problems, it changes our perspective on our problems. God didn’t just want gratitude FROM me, He wanted gratitude FOR me, because He knew that living in gratitude is how I could get through difficult times, painful experiences, and transform sorrow into personal growth.”
Healing Through Farming: How the Earth is Our Common Ground
“For some inexplicable reason our culture expects that the elderly experience a different kind of grief. As if age makes the death of a spouse, and that loss of a sexual relationship, expected and therefore somehow “less”. Those widowed are supposed to accept it with grace and wait patiently for their turn to die. Alone.”
The overweight. The obese. The chubby. The fat. The plump.
These are the untouchables in America.