Gratitude

“Gratitude becomes real when it gets specific.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Some people enter a room and make it lighter; others teach everyone else how to carry the light.”

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“A life continues in the choices it taught other people to make.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You stayed on the call long after you had an easy reason to hang up.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You are in the background of so many good memories that I sometimes forget to thank you for helping make them.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You finished a task I could not face, and gave me enough room to face the next one.”

— ToastBuddy original

“When I doubted the work, you could name the parts I had already learned to do.”

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“Tonight, the quiet work deserves to be heard about.”

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“You helped before I knew how to ask, then listened when I learned.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Your name belongs in the story of anything good I manage to do with what you taught me.”

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“It says a great deal about this partnership that each of you keeps giving the other the credit.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Thank you for the years of good advice, and for occasionally joining the bad idea before offering it.”

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“Before we wish you well somewhere else, let us say what became better while you were here.”

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“The help you accepted belongs in this story as much as the effort you gave.”

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“The doors opened on time because someone had been working long before anyone arrived.”

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“You waited for the whole story before deciding what advice to give.”

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“May you remember the people who gave you time to think when a quick answer would have been easier for them.”

— ToastBuddy original