Hello, Naomi!
INITIAL IMPRESSION / OVERVIEW:

I enjoyed reading your personal, biographical essay and absolutely loved your beautiful heart and soul that shined throughout it.

Your writing kept me riveted and I read straight through to the end.
MORE DETAILED FEEDBACK:

Happy Writing.Com Anniversary month! I hope you enjoy this review as a celebration of your time here and find the review uplifting and encouraging.

You are a perfect example of living with gratitude and joy in your heart. I love that you give credit and praise to the Lord, the source of all that is good in our lives and world.

I suspect that more people would be happier if they had your attitude of gratitude.

My favorite part was: "My grateful heart turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. My grateful heart can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." That is exactly what a grateful heart can do! Good for you! Even though this was my favorite part, I enjoyed your whole essay. Well done, Naomi.

I appreciated your explanatory part at the bottom. It was interesting to learn what pastillas were and to learn about the happy baskets, which I had wanted to know more about after reading (and reviewing) your Happiness piece earlier this week.

I am not entirely sure what a documentary is in written form? I only know them as videos. But this felt more like an essay to me, so that's why I keep calling it an essay, if you're wondering.

I thought the biographical and personal genres you selected were appropriate for this personal, biographical essay of yours. If you wanted to add a third one you could consider things like experience, cultural, spiritual, inspirational, and religious. I always recommend selecting three genres as it can gain you more readers, and, as a bonus, if someone were to nominate your piece for a quill award, you'd have three genres to be considered for, instead of just two.
As with any review, please take what serves you and release or ignore what doesn't.
CONCLUSION:

I enjoyed reading your personal, biographical essay, and applaud your excellent attitude and faithfulness to our Lord God.

Thank you for sharing your time, creativity, heart, culture, faith, experiences, and writing with the Writing.Com community!

Once again, happy anniversary month! I hope the year ahead is filled with blessings and joy for you!
May love, joy and peace be yours in abundance!
PWheeler
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