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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Seven Lessons Learned from Leaves
by Paul Cotter
In March 2020, I wrote a piece titled I Am a Leaf that appeared on…
Stories of Grateful Living
Gratitude Behind Bars: Ashley Law
by Ashley Law
A moving response received from one of the participants in Grateful Anyhow, a project in…
Stories of Grateful Living
A Heart with Wings
by Katie Rubinstein
The practice of grateful living has had something to teach me about the tenacity of…
Stories of Grateful Living
The Beauty of Losing Yourself in Nature
by Paul Cotter
In this Story of Grateful Living, photographer Paul Cotter details a misty morning during the…
Stories of Grateful Living
Moving from the Pain of Addiction to Living Gratefully
by Katie Bloom
Here in our Stories of Grateful Living, we honor the voices of our community as…
Stories of Grateful Living
I am a Leaf
by Paul Cotter
Here in our Stories of Grateful Living, we honor the voices of our community as…
Stories of Grateful Living
Gratitude Behind Bars: Danny Brandon
by Danny Brandon
A powerful letter received from one of the participants in Grateful Anyhow, a project in…
Stories of Grateful Living
Gratitude Behind Bars
by The Grateful Living Team
This project hosted in partnership with Prisoner Express engaged approximately 350 incarcerated people in an…
Stories of Grateful Living
Gratitude Works in the ER
by Laura Grace Weldon
My body started to soften into the experience...By the time I decided to picture autumn…
Stories of Grateful Living
Gratefulness Embraces Parkinson’s
by Tim Roberts
Gratefulness helps us return to ourselves, restoring our equilibrium and helping us to see beyond…
Stories of Grateful Living
Living Gratefully Creates a Generous Energy
by Lisa Valentine
Living gratefully doesn’t insulate me from life, it allows me to more readily embrace joy…
Stories of Grateful Living
Nature Recording – My Journey
by Lang Elliott
Nature author, speaker, cinematographer, sound recordist, photographer, and generous contributor of soundscapes to our Sound…
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