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Cafe membership | Nov 27 2009

从这个感恩节开始，咖啡除了继续接受捐款之外，实行会员制，年费定为100美金，免去国内咖啡友的年费，他们翻墙不易，付款不易。

2009年会费从感恩节Nov.26,2009开始严格执行，截止日期为Dec 25,2009. 我会把这个标题置顶。

有问题，有意见的朋友请直接给我写信：maya.cafe@yahoo.com

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Pause and Give Thanks

过节前就想在咖啡弄一个Thanksgiving的仪式，想大家节前都忙，第二天会更好一点。美国的节日里，除了Halloween，我最喜欢的就是thanksgiving. 我想在咖啡里大家聚一下，停下来，跟大家一起花几分钟时间来表达我的感恩, 找到这首感恩的小诗。I praise Thee for the present cross.

Wherever you find yourself today,
Whether filled with joy or wrapped in pain,
Remember to pause a moment and give thanks

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I Thank Thee

O Thou whose bounty fills my cup,
With every blessing meet!
I give Thee thanks for every drop—
The bitter and the sweet.

I praise Thee for the desert road,
And for the riverside;
For all Thy goodness hath bestowed,
And all Thy grace denied.

I thank Thee for both smile and frown,
And for the gain and loss;
I praise Thee for the future crown
And for the present cross.

I thank Thee for both wings of love
Which stirred my worldly nest;
And for the stormy clouds which drove
Me, trembling, to Thy breast.

I bless Thee for the glad increase,
And for the waning joy;
And for this strange, this settled peace
Which nothing can destroy.

--Jane Crewdson (1860)