Here in our Stories of Grateful Living, we honor the voices of our community as we invite people to share their personal experiences with gratefulness. Join us in appreciating the explorations, reflections, and insights of fellow community members as we collectively learn what it means to live gratefully.
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Alzheimer’s Taught Me to be Grateful
by Ann Napoletan
Ann Napoletan learned how to connect with her mother in her mother's changed world...and in…
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Wearing Gratitude (Like a Sweater)
by Susa Talan
Reading poems and essays, delving into language, meaningful experiences and registering them through the lens…
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Clinging to Peaches: The Paradox of Pruning
by Kristi Nelson
I came to gardening late in life. Not till my mid-40’s did I have the…
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The Virtue of Spark Plugs, and How I Found Happiness With a Chipper-Shredder
by Julie Quiring
I must remember, there’ll be days like this. - Van Morrison Today I spent hours…
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Making Grateful Living a Grateful DOing
by Kristi Nelson
The more that we allow our hearts to expand to love, deeply appreciate, and feel…
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My Thanksgiving is Perpetual
by Isabella Price
Whenever I was on the verge of falling into a negative thought pattern I focused…
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The Last Best Gift
by Elaine Mansfield
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things... - Naomi Shihab Nye An…
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Humility; the Virtue of Growing Downwards
by Fabiana Fondevila
It isn’t the illness I want to write about but rather what it has made…
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Simple Gestures
by Sarah Heffernan
[quote text="Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk…
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Why I Am Grateful to My Ex-husband
by Linda McKenney
And then, as I climbed out of my dungeon of despair, I began a new…
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Grateful In Spite Of Pain
by Bruce F. Singer, Psy.D
Helping individuals cultivate gratefulness to change their relationship to physical pain from one of emotional…
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The Spiritual Strength of Trees
by Kevin Lee
I call them Spirit Trees. And whether they’re rooted in the wilderness or in a…
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