title: ThanksLiving: Gaining a Perspective to Enrich Your Life (Volume 1)
author:  D. Thomas Owsley 
description: Dr. D. Thomas Owsley is an author, counselor, life coach, educator, leader, and public speaker. He earned his several degrees in biology, history, social sciences, theology, biblical counseling, and pastoral ministry. Don served in the U.S. Army, after which he became involved in a number of business pursuits. With some key people, he founded a private school where he was both administrator and teacher. For nearly twenty years after graduating from seminary, Don served as church planter and then lead pastor. He now coaches, counsels, teaches at a university and a seminary, brings messages to various churches, speaks at conferences, and blogs. His first book, The Perfect Pastor? was published in 2007. His favorite hobbies are blogging, reading, and photography. His passion is to use his gifts, skills, and talents to mentor, serve, and bring value to others to help them flourish in life. Don started Relavate to do just that. Relavate exists to serve people like you who have a desire to enrich their own lives and elevate relationships. Don is available as a life coach and conference speaker. You can contact him through Relavate.org. He and his family live in beautiful Colorado.
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Acknowledgements
  
  
  Small book, prolonged expressions of gratitude.
  
  
  Thank you to the people who made this novel possible: my agent Lucy Luck, and
  the patient and tenacious editors Jason Arthur and Lee Boudreaux with their
  teams.
  
  
  I am indebted to Royal Holloway, University of London for the research
  scholarship that allowed me time to fall over/into/between dictionaries.
  Sincere thanks to Judith Hawley and Kristen Kreider for their insights and
  candour throughout my studies: thank you for your confidence. Thanks also to
  Patricia Duncker and Richard Hamblyn for their invaluable critiques, comments
  and kind words, and to Andrew Motion and Robert Hampson for their early
  encouragement and conversation. Thank you to my colleagues and students in the
  English department for animating me.
  
  
  I could not have written any of this without the aid of a number of
  institutions and organisations. Thanks to the Society of Authors for a Writers
  Grant in 2017. Thank you to the University of 