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What Are You Grateful For?

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Expressing your gratitude can enhance your health. To celebrate Thanksgiving, here are inspiring survey responses from HSS members.


I am grateful for my job (as crazy as it is) and that I work in a beautiful city.

These days, I am grateful for the fact that I have a job and I love the staff I work with. My child, may family and I are in good health and I have a home. Today is a beautiful day and the sun is shinning!

I am grateful for my health, of course!

Good Health, Love, Job, Home, Family and Friends.

I'm grateful for feeling good most every time and sharing my energy and whatever I can to the people I volunteer for - people who are mentally disabled.

am grateful for my family. My parents are both alive and I feel blessed to spend their last years with them. My husband shows me how to live and love. My siblings, sons and in-laws, grandcchildren extended family and friends all keep me grounded. I am grateful for my health and my employment which allows me many opportunities. God is good.

My children.

I'm grateful for making history on November 4 and renewing our national sense of hope and destiny.

I feel grateful for the HSS Health Fair every year where we can get information and tests to check on our health.

Good doctors and meds, good health, a happy life, good friends and few worries.

The health of my family and myself, our relative economic prosperity and security (not wealthy but not poor), and those who try to help me and my family (teachers, health care professionals).

Having really good friends and a great family who are all wonderful people! And my health so far has been pretty good which I feel very grateful for.

Am grateful that I have a job and I'm healthy.

My good health and that of my husband, sons and daughter-in-law.

I am grateful for the kindness of strangers.

I feel grateful for my family members and my boyfriend who loves and supports me in my life.

I feel grateful for my life, my good health, a good home, job, friends, my cats, a sense of humor, and a Thanksgiving to share with other grateful people known or unknown.

Good health.

I am grateful for being a survivor, healthy and having a job. Just hope the economy will recover soon. Thanks.

my loving family.

Good health, children, husband, family, friends, job.

God's blessings: family, friends, health, finances, work, my home, faith.

I am very grateful to the C&C of SF for the excellent health coverage provided my wife and me. It is a godsend in this day and age.

My husband, health, home, family AND my work. Especially my great colleagues.

I hope to be grateful shortly for the nation electing a new president who has excellent values and priorities to help this nation heal from the last 8 years and create a more peaceful world.

GOOD HEALTH

I am grateful for being employed by such a great department of the ccsf I look forward to work every day.

Being an American and being able to vote, being a woman in this country as women in many other countries suffer horrible atrocities. Also having a wonderful husband and family.

I am grateful for my first grandson who will be one year old soon!

aving a good job in a bad economy, for having a smart, healthy and beautiful child and for being pretty healthy myself.

My job is secure, and my pension will probably still be there when I finally do get to retire even though it has been postponed for 5-6 years.

I am grateful for the deep love and support I receive and share with my partner of 15 years, time has only brought us closer. I am grateful for the health and well-being of loved ones, everyone is making their way in the world, nieces & nephews, brothers and sisters, my mother and father, and friends. I am grateful for the simple sentience of our 3 furry friends (our cats). I am grateful for a work life that allows me to offer services and comfort to others. I am grateful for the opportunity to take my spiritual walk even in the midst of a full-time work week. I am grateful for my co-workers who are sincere in their service to others and fun to share time with. I am grateful that so many people are taking the time to vote and for the optimism and hope in the air that at this time feels greater than the cynicism and despair. I am grateful for this beautiful day and that, at least for today, I was able to ride to work without rain. :)

Life.

Good health, a loving family both at home and at work, a reliable job, respect for my abilities, freedom to travel and discuss issues, and shortly, retirement and time to focus on many hobbies and interests that have been postponed.

Being able to walk and breathe independently. Being able to support myself and manage my finances. Being able to choose what I want to buy and how much I want to spend. Being comforted and emotionally supported by my partner. Being able to own a home and come home to a smiling dog. I am thankful for being given the opportunity to work for the City and County with all its benefits and rewards.

I feel grateful for doing the job I like, having a happy life, having freedom (mentally, physically, financialy), creating goals and accomplished them.

I feel grateful because God loves me; I'm alive; I have work; for my family, friends, and coworkers.

I have two healthy, happy children; my parents, my great sister and brother. They are my treasures. I'm in relatively good health myself, too. I have a job that is challenging but fun and work with a good group of people. I have great friends. I like most of my relatives. I keep my sense of humor.

I am grateful I have a job, grateful with good health, and grateful that I could smile at the end of the day.

My job, my friends, my family, my little Pug, my home, my health, my happiness & general health.

I feel grateful for waking up this morning and being employed because so many are unemployed. I also feel grateful for my health, so many have failing health. I am just grateful to be alive in this day and time.

I am grateful that I can vote free and without harrassment.

I am grateful that I am well enough to work, fully employed and have a stimulating job; my family loves me and is my good support when I am stressed out. I am grateful to be living in USA, a land of freedom and full of opportunities. I am grateful that it rained the last 2 days for we need the water. Hope you have a great day too!

Life and Health and most importantly MY Family!

I'm grateful that my children are healthy, contributing adults, 2 of my favorite people in the world and have 3 beautiful children who've allowed me to discover a deeper level of love than I knew existed.

I am grateful for all the freedoms I enjoy and for being alive!

Today on Election Day, I am grateful to live in a place and time where I am able to participate in government by voting.

My wonderful life experiences and adequate health coverage, which brings peace of mind.

Being in reasonably good health; having financial security; my nearly 22 year old cat; good friends I can count on.

I'm grateful that because of my good health I can pursue new interests now that I'm retired

I am very grateful for having a City job and lots of seniority during the hard times that are coming. Of course, I'm grateful for my daughter, my partner and the good health we all enjoy.

My health, my job, my apartment, good relationship with my family, my upcoming vacation :)

I am grateful for living and working in San Francisco where I can be openly gay and not face discrimination. I am also grateful for my Union and their great negotiating skills! Finally, I am grateful for being able to ignore the stupid people above me and proceed to perform the best I can at work. I hope you are all grateful for my honesty.

I am a nature-lover, and have been monitoring the progress of a family of grebes (duck-like birds) on a lake in Golden Gate Park. I discovered the six baby fluffy chicks on Labor Day. Every weekend after I would see a few of them, but young duck-like birds tend to be fodder for other predators, and I was sure at least a couple had been morsels for something else. Then yesterday, two full months later, there theyall were in the late afternoon sun--six nearly grown grebes. They have all survived, and for that, on a suddenly sunny afternoon, I felt truly grateful.

I'm grateful for having a warm safe home to return to every night.

Health, food, beauty

Waking up in the morning and continuing to look for purpose in life.

My husband and my friends.

All of it.

That i still have a job w/ ccsf

Excellent health, community, family, rockin' sister, and my amazing job and partner.

My 87 year-old mother's good health and her unconditional love and unfailing good humor.

I'm most grateful for the ability to make choices every day as our lives are defined by the choices we make.

That I am able to live in this beautiful city and partake in a few of its many cultural activities.

I am grateful that I can look up and see the sky, stand freely and gaze for a moment. I am grateful that I live in a place where I do not worry about deadly explosions raining down upon me.

Living in SF again, also having an interesting job and health benefits.

Alive and kicking!

My three children. They turned out to be caring, loving, and responsible members of society.

I'm grateful that my husband cooks dinner for me.