Sandi L Boucher reflects on gratitude as an Anishinaabe value before the final day of her Nishnaabe Askhi workshop. She measures success through relationships, not money, and encourages counting blessings and learning from past mistakes and ended relationships.
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Hi, everybody. Sandy Boucher again. Just sitting here preparing for the last day of my Nishnaabe Askhi workshop. And honestly, I don't have any deep, profound teaching for you tonight. I'm literally just sitting here thankful. And I guess that in itself is a large part of Anishinaabe culture. Gratitude. I have so much to be thankful for tonight. I was planning on doing some paperwork, and I couldn't because one friend wanted to talk and one friend needed to talk, and one I hadn't talked to in ages. And at the end, as I sat here, I came back to one teaching that absolutely everything happens for a reason. And I'm comfy with the fact that the evening played out exactly as it needed to. I needed the laughs. I needed the conversation. I needed the sharing. And I needed that time with my friends. They are a blessing. Each one of the people that I communicated with tonight brings something different to my life. And money is a lousy way to calculate whether you've been successful or not. I prefer to keep track by the number of people that I've had the chance to meet and get to know, and maybe even the people that I've had a chance to assist or influence or hopefully inspire. I've had an amazing life. I've learned a lot, good times and bad times. I've learned a lot about the woman I am. And that's one thing I shared tonight during one of my conversations, that I am one of those lucky people who can say, I like the woman that I became. I have no issue looking at her in the mirror. It took me a long time to see her blessings and her gifts. My blessings. My gifts. And yeah, I'm proud of the woman I became. I would love to hear you say that. Because you know what? You deserve that. If nothing else today, remember, you are the perfect you that you should be at this age, at this point in time. All the mistakes you needed to make to get you to this point. We learn from our mistakes. All of the relationships that ended were meant to. In some cases, to teach us we deserve better. In some cases, to teach us maybe we should have cherished more, but every single one of them taught us don't fret about the past. It is exactly what it was meant to be. To teach you what you needed to know for your amazing future. I hope you're having a quiet evening to one filled with blessings. I hope you take the time to count them because we all should do that. Take care. I hope you have an amazing Sunday. Even though I'm recording this Saturday evening and I will talk to you soon. Thinking of you always. Bye. Bye.
