Tag: gratitude
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December Gratitude & Some Reading
To Emily, For Everything Unwritten Oh my beautiful friend, a treasured member of the family of my heart, some might wonder what more I could possibly add to the notes I’ve already written you here. Yet you and I both know there is always so much more behind every post and every memory I’ve shared.…
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November Gratitude & Some Reading
To the Anonymous BCBA: Anonymous Online, but not in Our Hearts Without your decision last year to take over the clinical supervision of our son’s programs, Tony’s ABA programs would have entirely ceased to be, and his ABA RBT would have had to take another job. I honor your desire to remain unknown on these…
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Gratitude & Some Viewing/Listening
BCBA1 For over two years now as the assistant clinical supervisor for Tony’s ABA programs, you have patiently and quietly interacted with our family each month, providing support to us, Casandra, and each supervising BCBA…and even by my calendar a thank you is long overdue. I am so grateful for the way you believe in…
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Gratitude Flowers For Vida
You and I were talking many years ago it feels like at this point, and you were telling me how you could tell that I spoke sweetly to Hannah because she always spoke sweetly to you while you were watching her, and you thanked me for the way I was raising her. I was always…
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July Gratitude & Some Reading
Acadia Long ago you first observed our son during your internship, but when you became the lead NMT therapist on his case it was under pandemic conditions using telehealth that I honestly never expected to be successful. You’ve been in those sessions. You remember what the first few weeks were like (thank you for not…
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June Gratitude & Some Reading
Pauline When you first started working with our son, we were trying to expand his flexibility in working with providers without me present. The last year didn’t end up being the therapy experience we were planning for Tony. I know there were points where the teletherapy programs weren’t easy to implement for anybody. I can’t…
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May Gratitude & Some Reading
To Justine Perhaps you cannot truly know what a gift trusting and sticking it out past the harder parts is to the heart of a mother of a child with the kind of needs Tony has- what it means to and for him. I know my understanding of love changed entirely the day our sweet…
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April Gratitude & Some Reading/Viewing
To the sweetheart from my allergist’s office, Anonymous online but not in my heart I beg that you would never think for even a second that the brevity of this note signifies anything to cheapen how much a single moment could mean. For saying to me that I deserved to be a patient at that…
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February Gratitude & A Very Short Bit of Reading
To My Sweet Sister-in-Law, Randi I don’t even know what to say about the past month, except that never had I expected most of it to happen the way that it did. Randi, I know your proverbial plate passed the point of overflowing long ago. And yet, without hesitation and with nothing but cheerful kindness…
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January Gratitude & Some Viewing
To the ASPCA Animal Poison Control staff and toxicologist, the Blue Pearl Emergency Animal Hospital, and Dr. M with the Fabulous staff at our Vet’s office: Thank you. Hannah’s precious Bandit, mischievous and usually very loving, doesn’t thank you. He’s not fond of vets, hospitalizations, medicines, tests, or anything like them- so he’s still very…