Grassroots Gratitude is the brainchild of community advocate, author, and master journal writer, Lorraine Widmer-Carson.

Lorraine’s personal mission is: To write daily. To appreciate widely. To recalibrate intentionally. To encourage others to cultivate their self-leadership rituals. Lorraine advocates for the benefits of writing longhand, looking for the positives, considering opportunities, examining motivations and acting with trust and human kindness.

In her experience as a community grant-maker and change agent, the journal has assisted her understanding of the swirl of life and its variables. It has sharpened her focus and improved her ability to listen, alerting her to the things that really matter in the short term, while keeping the bigger goals in mind. For Lorraine, the most important things are fundamental relationships: to family, to each other, and to place.

Grassroots Gratitude’s BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal): to shift our relationships to ourselves, to each other and to the planet with thoughts, words and deeds that help us to flourish and connect.