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Have a great Black Friday Peeps! ✨😎

Here’s to fall fridays and pumpkin spice and everything nice and FALL-y 🌻🍂🍁🧡☕️✨✨

Hello Friday! It’s officially the most wonderful time of the YEAR! -✨✨ Kicking off the weekend with YOU and a coffee ( or tea) of course! Happy Weekend everyone! ✨✨✨

The lovely Iris Apfel looking good at 100 years young. 🌹✨

Peace Out Peeps! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving evening with your family. ✨✨

@Sheba
A Good Evening to you and your family. Happy Thanksgiving Day to you and your hubby.
Husband and I decided to stay up late last night. So I got a late start today, but got everything done.
I hope you are enjoying a wonderful time with your family, having delicious food and great company.
The Apple strudel turned out very good, it kinda looks like the picture. Only I didn’t sprinkle powder sugar on top. The filling is sweet enough with brown sugar and just a little bit of raisins.

Have a great evening Sheba and take care .

HSN Iris Apfel in the Macy’s Parade. ✨😎

Flying high without a wobble
On my way to gobble gobble!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!! ♥️

-Iris Apfel

Being Truly Thankful

Our gratitude deepens when we begin to be thankful for being alive and living the life we are living.

Often when we practice being thankful, we go through the process of counting our blessings, acknowledging the wonderful people, things and places that make up our reality. While it is fine to be grateful for the good fortune we have accumulated, true thankfulness stems from a powerful comprehension of the gift of simply being alive, and when we feel it, we feel it regardless of our circumstances. In this deep state of gratitude, we recognize the purity of the experience of being, in and of itself, and our thankfulness is part and parcel of our awareness that we are one with this great mystery that is life.

It is difficult for most of us to access this level of consciousness as we are very caught up in the ups and downs of our individual experiences in the world. The thing to remember about the world, though, is that it ebbs and flows, expands and contracts, gives and takes, and is by its very nature somewhat unreliable. If we only feel gratitude when it serves our desires, this is not true thankfulness. No one is exempt from the twists and turns of fate, which may, at any time, take the possessions, situations, and people we love away from us. Ironically, it is sometimes this kind of loss that awakens us to a thankfulness that goes deeper than just being grateful when things go our way. Illness and near-miss accidents can also serve as wake-up calls to the deeper realization that we are truly lucky to be alive.

We do not have to wait to be shaken to experience this state of being truly thankful for our lives. Tuning in to our breath and making an effort to be fully present for a set period of time each day can do wonders for our ability to connect with true gratitude. We can also awaken ourselves with the intention to be more aware of the unconditional generosity of the life force that flows through us regardless of our circumstances. Amen! 😎✨😘

@kittengirl,

Enjoy this day with your family and kitties. ✨✨

@shoelady60,

Good day in the ‘burgh. ✨😘Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Sending love to you and your family enjoy. ✨😎🌹

@71flowerchild,

Enjoy the day with your family and fur babies.

@taci,

Good morning in S. California and Happy Thanksgiving I am multi-tasking today. ✨✨

Hey get the walk I did mine this morning and it was cold. Yikes! 😎😜

Enjoy the view and have a great day. ✨✨

@oodiebom,

Good afternoon on the Gulf Coast. Oodie it is almost Hanukkah I believe it starts
Monday the 29th let me know if I got that right. I am going to say Happy Thanksgiving
and Happy Hanukkah. ✨😘💕

Oodie enjoy the day and eat whatever you and hubby like. ✨

@xango,

Good day in Florida. ✨😎😘I want to wish you again Happy Thanksgiving Day. My house
smells really good hubby is so ready almost. 😜

Blessed are your neighbors who get your treats looks like me and Oodiebom will be
making a trip to see ya. 😜😘✨

Happy Thanksgiving Day. ✨