There is no joy in Mudville
by chuckofish
Well, baseball season is finally over. Thank goodness.
Post-season baseball is just too stressful. We flyover fans identify so strongly with our hometown team and we are so eager for them to triumph…but we must keep telling ourselves: It is just baseball. Nobody died.
Yes, we will miss our (sad) skipper.
But life goes on.
One of my goals for November is to be more consciously thankful.
You would think that would be an easy thing in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, but experience teaches us (or me at least) that this is not so. We start that snowball slide to Christmas and get busier day by day. And when we get busy, we forget to be thankful.
My mantra this month will be: Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Even today. Even when the Cardinals lose.
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
–John Bunyan
dual personalities 
This is my Thanksgiving quote: “I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite–only a sense of existence.” Henry David Thoreau
Well, we try to be contented!
What lovely quotes — I particularly love Susie’s Thoreau quote — and I am truly grateful for that sense of existence.
There’s also this to cheer the soul: “Oh frabjous day! Callouh! Callay!” he chortled in his joy. I feel that way a lot.
Yes, indeed, Lewis Carroll–I sometimes feel like a Mad Hatter myself. Mike Matheny gifs also make me happy. 🙂
I agree that a perpetual thanksgiving is important. The being content with existence is harder to learn.
I love Mike Matheny and the Cardinals!