NEW for 2023! Grassroots Gratitude invites submissions for in this space. Got something you want to share? If you would like to post your original work as a Grateful Update, please send to [...]
Just over a year ago, my book, An Ecology of Gratitude: Writing your way to what matters entered the world. Thanks to many of you, I have surpassed my First Goal: To sell 500 books. Thank you! [...]
Giving Tuesday identifies itself as being the world’s largest generosity movement. For this hyper-local event in Banff National Park, it was an occasion for hearts and hands to be warmed [...]
First, a true story: After 90 days, my inaugural summer workshop series called Gratitude Trifecta: Write. Appreciate. Recalibrate. has come to a close. I want to thank each of the participants [...]
Did you know? World Gratitude Day is being celebrated on September 21. I didn’t but, in the spirit of promoting gratitude as a much deeper, much more profound something than a one-day [...]
How does one grow community gratitude? Community transformation Author and Advocate for Belonging, Peter Block writes: “The small group is the unit of transformation.” Block [...]
The word “condolence” usually pluralized, comes from the Latin word, condolere, meaning “to suffer together”. Synonyms include commiseration, comfort, sympathy. While the meaning of [...]
Have you ever signed up for a course or a conference on a whim? Have you ever spontaneously decided to commit to something that wasn’t in ‘the plan’, but in a moment of curiosity, you decided to [...]
Poet and wise elder, Mary Oliver offers “Instructions for Living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” I think these instructions remind us to find the things that [...]
The words rattling around in my brain this week are: “Persistence” sitting alphabetically between “Patience” and “Perspective”. Persistence, when it comes to my daily [...]
