Gratitude Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/gratitude/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:16:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Gratitude Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/gratitude/ 32 32 Celebrating Thanksgiving https://mind-at-work.com/celebrating-thanksgiving/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:16:31 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2995 Special days of thanksgiving existed in earlier cultures, including Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and ancient Jewish, yet we Americans are more familiar with the ones that occurred several hundred years ago in Florida, Virginia, and most notably Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. From the beginning, American Thanksgiving has been religious, though not in a denominational sense. People [...]

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]]> “American Exceptionalism” https://mind-at-work.com/american-exceptionalism/ Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:05:24 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1022 I am troubled by the term “American exceptionalism.” Those who know me will find this odd because I love my country, my eyes still fill with tears when I hear the national anthem, and I thank God that I was born here. What is more, I believe no other nation has done more than America [...]

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