"I cried, I got goose bumps, I shared it on Facebook, I felt grateful for everyone who helped," she said.
This number includes the Farm's first infant death, Ina May's own premature son who had a rare heart condition: "I felt grateful it was me and not another mother". Other babies were stillborn or too premature.
I think it's working, I feel grateful, happy, nervous.
In a corner booth, Julia Bossinger ordered the marinated Romanian steak ("as rare as you can make it") and said she felt grateful for the pensions she collects from her own job, as a rehabilitation counselor, and her late husband's, as an electrical engineer.
Those who, without quite knowing why, felt grateful to it were perhaps responding to its secret, unexplicit defense of a part of themselves that almost everything else written in their century was teaching them to discredit or deny".
Each day Thnx4.org asks people what they've been thankful for (e.g., the actions of another person, a material possession, a metaphysical concept like freedom) and how often they've felt grateful, and it offers the possibility of sharing "thnx!" via email or social media channels like Facebook and Twitter.
Melanie felt grateful and foolish.
I felt grateful and lucky.
John felt grateful, he says.
Mostly, he felt grateful to be alive.
