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Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/19/24

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My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. A beautiful Martin Luther King Day parade here in Savannah.

2. Truth:

3. Grandson Gabriel’s soaring pink basketball shoes.

4. The incredible luxury of owning a car! Which like many (most?) things I usually take for granted.

Here’s ours …

Kidding.

Here it is …

(With Robert texting or something in his skinny jeans.)

Ours may be little and a bit shy, but she takes us from Point A to Point B. And even sometimes from Point A to Point Z!

5. You in all your You-ness.

May You and your You-ness find Warmth and a measure of Joy this weekend.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/12//24

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. January’s camellias here in Savannah.

2. I know I have expressed gratitude about this before, but isn’t it just such an incredible luxury to have Hot and Cold Running Water?!

3. This little fellow I met yesterday.

We chatted for a while. And he posed for a pic.

4. Simple sidewalk beauty.

5. A little bit of Christmas simply refusing to go away.

May weekend beauty find you.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/29/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. Our little cabin on Lake Delano at F.D. Roosevelt State Park in Pine Mountain GA over Christmas weekend.

2. HR grilling bbq chicken thighs while I watch comfortably from the cabin porch.

3. Speaking of grilling, driving to Dowdell’s Knob near the state park to see where FDR had a stone grill overlooking the Georgia hills.

Cool statue of FDR, the only one showing his paralyzed legs without braces.

Here’s the … “grill.”

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LOVED TO PICNIC HERE, AND HE HAD THIS GRILL BUILT. IT WAS FILLED IN TO PRESERVE IT.

F. D. R. Warm Springs Memorial Commission

Well, it ain’t a Big Green Egg.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

4. The Joy of Travel.

5. Surviving the hilly and creek-crossing 4.2 mile Cascade Falls Hike (a part of the 22 mile Pine Mountain Trail) on Christmas Eve.

May we all have Reason to Smile as we hike toward the end of 2023.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/22/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. Our amaryllis …

… blooming at just the tight time.

2. Beautifully precious grandchildren …

3. Cold and hot running water! What an incredibly tremendous blessing (which I far too often take for granted).

4. Our annual tradition of reading the delightfully nostalgic little book, A Cup of Christmas Tea and enjoying tea and cookies.

5. The reason for the season.

Have a Blessed Christmasv Weekend.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/1/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. SO enjoying last night’s Savannah Telfair Museum Christmas Tree lighting and Design District Holiday Walk.

2. Our wonderful (and often taken-for-granted) EYESIGHT.

3. HR’s nickname … Squirrel.

New ornament

4. Washington Square at dusk. We live just off Washington Square in downtown Savannah. (Savannah has 22 extant squares, and ours is the northeast most one near the river.)

It’s one of my favorite places to read or rest.

5. Underrated beauty in fall’s scraggly bushes.

May you find lotsa beauty this weekend.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 11/24/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. This incredible Christmas Cactus in the hallway of our local YMCA.

2. Continuing our tradition of putting up our Travel Tree on Thanksgiving night.

Each ornament is from somewhere we have visited over the years.

3. The ability to smell. Especially during the holiday season!

4. Having a cozy spot to read and touch toes with HR.

5. Pretty blossoms reaching down to pose for photos with Robert.

May you find a cozy spot to enjoy this weekend.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 11/17/23

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. Falling beauty. (Even in a Savannah shopping center parking lot.)

I had to look at this leaf for a bit before I started to see its aging beauty as well.

2. Belts.

3. More autumn beauty in Savannah.

The Kehoe House Historic Inn one square over from ours.

4. An early Thanksgiving dinner at our church’s Wednesday Night Supper this week, with ex-wife Donna and our good buddy Margaret.

We all just have SO very much to be thankful for! (Especially those garlic mashed potatoes with gravy.)

5. Covered streets.

May you have a cornucopia of joy this weekend.