Clarksville Living Magazine — November 2018
The November 2018 Clarksville Living Magazine makes healthy holiday choices, retrains the brain for gratitude, and lays wreaths for local heroes.
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“Making Healthy Choices” opened the issue with guidance for navigating the season's temptations, a practical lead-in to a month built around the table.
“Gratitude” took a scientific turn, explaining how the deliberate practice of thankfulness — picturing the things you are grateful for and letting the feeling settle in the body — can actually reprogram the brain toward greater well-being. The feature kept its list refreshingly small and human: colorful autumn leaves, friends who listen, funny texts, warm jackets, free Wi-Fi and a friendly barista all counted worthy of thanks. The issue supported a wreath-sponsorship drive benefiting Resthaven, where sponsoring two wreaths earned a third free, boosted by Mission BBQ and its American Heroes Cup sales, while “Holiday Help” offered a hand with the season's logistics.
The recurring departments round out a November number built around gratitude in its fullest sense — a feeling worth cultivating and a practice with real benefits, reminding readers that the season of giving begins with small, deliberate acts of remembrance and care.
The issue's wreath drive had a story behind it. Wreaths Across America was founded in 2007 by Morrill Worcester, owner of the Worcester Wreath Company in Harrington, Maine, but its roots reached back further — to a prize trip Worcester won to Washington, D.C. at the age of twelve, and a visit to Arlington National Cemetery that made an impression he carried for the rest of his life. Out of that memory grew a nationwide organization laying remembrance wreaths on veterans' graves each December, and the feature's invitation to Clarksville readers was simple: start a holiday tradition that means more than opening gifts and carving a turkey by lending a hand.
Table of Contents
- Making Healthy Choices (p. 8)
- Gratitude (p. 12)
- Holiday Help (p. 16)
- National ___ Day (p. 20)
Regular Departments
- Calendar (p. 34)
- Fridge (p. 42)
- Network (p. 44)
