November 30th, 2025
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! We trust you are enjoying the start of the “Holiday Season” and are able to surround yourselves with loving friends and family this Thanksgiving. We’ll of course be talking about gratitude this Sunday and are thankful to have Myles Sloniker and Rafael Chamon joining us for some stellar music sharing! We hope many of you will be able to join us this Saturday night, too, for our Gratitude Concert. Details below. We’ll have a potluck lunch following our Sunday gathering.
With gratitude and love, Colleen and Mark
Quotes to ponder
“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
~ Roy T. Bennett
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
~ Epicurus
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
~ Maya Angelou
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
~ Kahill Gibran
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Looking Ahead/Notes of Interest
Saturday, November 29th, 7 pm ~ Myles Sloniker and his friend Rafael, a Brazilian guitarist, arrived last night and we’re excited to be presenting a Gratitude Concert here at Paths of Heart, along with the rest of the family this coming Saturday! $30 suggested donation (we’ll be a 5 piece band!). There are about 10 seats left, so please RSVP, and if you’d like to pay in advance to secure your spot, you may do so on our website, https://www.pathsofheart.org/donate/ or on Venmo @PathsofHeart. Please note “Gratitude Concert” in the memo lines. We hope you’ll celebrate this “Season of Thanksgiving” with us!
November 30th, 10:30 a.m. – in person Paths of Heart Gathering, with special music guests Myles Sloniker and Rafael Chamone. We’ll have a Gratitude potluck afterwards.
Sunday, December 7th, 10:30 a.m. – ZOOM Paths of Heart Gathering
Sunday, December 21st, 10:30 a.m. – in lieu of our Christmas Eve concert, we’ll be doing a whole hour of holiday music for you during our regular Paths of Heart Gathering time! Emma Sloniker will join us in song. Happy Winter Solstice!
Sunday, January 4th, 10:30 a.m. – ZOOM Paths of Heart Gathering
Sunday, January 18th, 10:30 a.m. – In person Paths of Heart Gathering
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! We wanted to give you plenty of notice to let you know that, especially since Myles won’t be with us for Christmas this year, we’ve decided to take Christmas Eve off (for the first time in 20 or 30 years?!) and therefore will not be doing our annual Christmas Eve Concert this year. We know this has been an annual tradition for many of you as well, and we thank you for your support and understanding in our decision. We most likely will be back at it next year! We hope you’ll decide to join us for our Gratitude Concert on 11/29 and/or our MORNING Solstice concert on 12/21 instead!
Giving Opportunities
Paths of Heart welcomes and appreciates your generous donations in support of our gatherings and other events! Remember, we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donations are tax deductible. Many folks find online donations very convenient and these are always gratefully accepted on our website, https://www.pathsofheart.org/donate/ There is an option for recurring monthly donations, if you so choose. We have also added Venmo as an easy way to donate to Paths of Heart! Just type in @PathsofHeart to find us in the Venmo app.
Another easy way to further support Paths of Heart is through the King Soopers Community Rewards Program – If you shop at KS and have a rewards card, you can “link” it to Paths of Heart and King Soopers will donate a portion of your dollars spent (around 5%) to our non-profit. Go to https://www.kingsoopers.com/i/community/community-rewards to sign up and link your card. Our organization name is Paths of Heart and organization number is RG782. Let us know if you want help signing up! This one small gesture (by just 25 or so families at this point) helps to generate over $1,000 a year for Paths of Heart, so we appreciate your consideration in participating in this valuable program!!
“Paths of Heart” Labyrinth and Zen Meditation Garden
This was intentioned as a community space, so know that you are always welcome to drop by and walk or sit – you do not need to let us know in advance. Do note that we have experienced the outer “halo” of glass blocks in the labyrinth to be slippery when wet, so it’s best to walk it on a dry day.
Gratitudes
We are so grateful to be together as a family this week and to celebrate with music, not only at our concert but at a couple of Jacob Jolliff Band performances in December, too (one of the bands Myles tours with).
What are you grateful for today?
“When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.”
~ Roy T. Bennett
“Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”
~ Mandy Hale
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!”
~ Steve Maraboli
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~ John F. Kennedy
About Paths of Heart…
Paths of Heart is a high spirited, heart-centered community where we gather together (in new and creative ways!) for music, poetry, commentary, and dialogue to create and nurture joy, compassion, gratitude, and love – in our own lives and throughout the world. Paths of Heart is a 501(c)(3) Human Services/Educational non-profit organization that uses the arts, especially, to encourage and propel seekers of a better, more peaceful world to find ways to serve, while becoming more kind and compassionate human beings.
We welcome you as we collectively and individually explore the sweet mysteries of life – this is an invitation into co-creation!
Visit us on the web at https://www.pathsofheart.org
We hope our physical paths may cross soon!