Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology including the work in molecular biology genetic engineering and so forth.
Following my junior year in high school I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
When I graduated from high school the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag I just want to be an example.
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Right now I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.