The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
As many of you probably don’t know, today is World Gratitude Day.
QUESTION: What are you grateful for?
Talk about it….
Family, friends and excellent health. And the ability to keep a roof over our heads…
I am grateful to have a job, a roof over my head, my health – so far, and for my friends & my family.
….. health and being able to keep a roof over our heads…. certainly nothing Newsom & Biden have done…
Family…especially my wife of 41+ years.
Simonpure~
I’m thinking Your Missy feels the same for you. My Hubby is thinking You are one heck of cool guy too. Yes, I am grateful to my Hubby for stepping up to the plate with my news health issues, and dealing with the doctors,…..hoping to recover and back to good health again in the future. Oh also,….no fast food junk, he is cooking rel food with my help, LOL!
My wife, my children, the limited time I had with my father, and the grace of God for providing the inherent wisdom to mostly make wise choices in life. These are the things I give Thanks for, regularly internally, and specifically on that special American holiday in November. However, I do not feel compelled to recognize this UN meditation group-derived day.
I’m grateful that I don’t have ro answer this question.
@Martinezmike….That’s a gratuitous answer.
I am grateful that i can barely get by, and make it easier for others by paying an absurd amount of taxes.
God, Family, and Friends. Being relatively healthy and living a comfortable life in the great state of California in the US of A. We may not be perfect as a state or nation but it is a melting pot of of people and ideas where I’m afforded freedoms that others in the world don’t have (whether that is political, religious, or cultural pressures).
God really?
So you think God is in favor of checking someone’s vaccination status before giving them medical care?
You say you are your afforded freedoms but you think nothing of trying to take away other people’s freedoms when they disagree with you.
What a joke.
@Janus
Thank you.
Well said, Pyrrhus.
I’m actually grateful for everything! Basic good health despite having heart failure, roof over our head ,despite almost losing it, Chevy and our wonderful Church services.
Been practicing “gratitude” for a few years now and it truly does make you happy even when things aren’t going so well
I am grateful Contra Costa County health officials acted so quickly in the COVID epidemic. They saved hundreds of lives.
Who comes up with all these stupid national this or that labeled days? It’s ridiculous!
Grateful that Ella Fitzgerald took the time to record the great American songbook series and it’s preserved for future generations to enjoy and marvel at this magnificent talent.
Listening to the Cole Porter songbook as I write this. The Gershwins are up next.
Ella Fitzgerald is one of my all time favorite jazz singer. I have several CD’s with her. A double Cole Porter songbook, and also Ella live in Berlin and others.
Ella and Louis Armstrong duets are my personal favorites
I am EXTREMELY grateful that my kids didn’t die or weren’t hospitalized last month after getting COVID from my mother in law since her and my father in law were both in denial that she was sick with COVID. Very blessed and grateful they were sick for only two days and were back to themselves by the third day.
I’m a pretty happy guy. Most, if not all, of my life I’ve looked at the bright side and never let anything bother me that I have no control over. I’m grateful for my parents bringing me into this world, and super grateful for the privilege of living in the greatest country on the planet.
@Dawg…..:Always look on the bright side of life”………https://youtu.be/eTXiqKGFNso?t=62
Grateful for many things. Basic health, family, friends are at the top. But also that I can still see well enough to read and sew, just need more light and stronger glasses.
Besides the obvious (health, family, good roof, good running vehicles, and Half-n-Half for my coffee), I’m grateful to CLAYCORD.com for providing this outlet for folks to share thoughts and ideas. It’s a nice forum, easy to follow, and you get to hear many sides, not just one.
I woke up this morning, and I’m living in the USA.
Today is Earth, Wind and Fire Day! Do you remember the 21st night of September?
No, but I remember the 3rd. of September (Papa Was A Rolling Stone).
I thought that was late December back in ‘63.
I am grateful to Dr. Berger for saving my life….great surgeon…. Thanks Doc!
Of course health, family and friends are always top of the list. I not only am grateful for my daughter and her family (son in law, 3 grandchildren and a step grandchild), I’m grateful that I was adopted into a family where I was surrounded by aunts and uncles, grandparents, one grandmother (my Dad’s mother) was my favorite, when I was a teen ager and wanted to go our for New Years Eve, and my mother said no, my grandmothers response was “Of course she is going to go out, and not sit here with us old folks”. I had a godmother I was very close to, and her daughter although my second cousin, is like a sister to me. I have, throughout my lifetime, been blessed with wonderful friends, always had someone to go to the movies with, the beach, have fun with and also serious conversation. I feel lucky and grateful that have allowed me to have a very interesting life, living in 4 countries (included the one I was born in) and 5 states. Although like most I have had my ups and downs, on the whole I feel grateful for the life I have had until now. Still anticipating more adventures and experiences.
Grateful that I can go to bed now and start all over tomorrow.
I am grateful that I believe in GOD!! It was with His guidance and instilled expertise for my two surgeons (ENT and Neurosurgeon) to remove a malignant growth from my upper nasal chambers. I am currently cancer free since 2012! (I could have lost my left eyeball but they were able to catch the tumor before it attached to the eyeball!)
Therefore I am grateful because it was diagnosed as a Stage-4 growth.
Correction 2 grandchildren and a step granddaughter.
Grateful to live in America. I’ll never stop complaining about it, nor should I, but it’s still a pretty sweet deal.