Growth and Gratitude
The Grassroots Gratitude community hub.
Got something to say? Here is a place for you to share your musings, celebrate gratitude, and expand your community connections.
A Space to Share Inspiration
The Grassroots Gratitude blog is both an open space for readers to introduce us to their ideas, ah-ha’s, love letters to the community, and also a place where Lorraine Widmer-Carson will share her honest insights. Here you can find inspiration to think differently, keep an open mind and expand your awareness of community leaders who take action, with gratitude. Through a grateful lens, community leaders understand that every decision can have a ripple effect. By reflecting and writing with gratitude, each of us can contribute to an upward spiral of positivity, connectivity, resilience, and change.
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Misremembered Confabulations
An old photo from a high school musical in 1974 – Guys and Dolls
Time is Urgent… we must slow down
Lucky me! On a daily basis, I can reflect on the precious words written by others actively recharging my spirit: Those committed to reflective inquiry are change agents who actively […]
Bridges, Changes, and River Crossings
The science abounds. Gratitude is a relational, social, complex thing that begins in one place and spreads from there. Like slow-moving meandering river to a raging torrent, gratitude is an influential shaper across time, sculpting the landscapes of our life.
About Nature, Wonder and Earth Day
April 8, 2024 will put parts of North America into darkness during daylight hours, thanks to the wonders of a Solar Eclipse. April 22, 2024 is the 54th anniversary of […]
Writing by hand – it’s my thing!
In this post, I share links to several articles describing the benefits and reasons for writing longhand in validation of my own experience. After thirty years of writing longhand each […]
Ground Hog Day 2024 – Re: Writing and Shadows
Ground Hogs and Shadows… such a poetic time of year to think about your shadow work and what needs illumination or consideration as you rediscover the brightest version of YOU. […]
Freeze-framing January 11, 2024
The temperatures have dropped in my home town and the cold is all we can think about. Frozen pipes. Frozen eyelashes. Frozen batteries. Frozen ski lifts. As for writing and […]
Because Creativity Creates Possibilities
Savouring the Season takes lots creative pauses along with self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-discipline, and self-control. As you ride this end-of-year-pendulum swing of expectations, exhilarations, exhaustion and excuses, I want to say: From […]
Gratitude Ignition Guide – Press Release
Local community advocate, author, and master journal writer, Lorraine Widmer-Carson combines experience and expertise in her latest book, Gratitude Ignition Guide: Notes for my Leadership Self, a practical tool intended to help everyday leaders cultivate a daily writing habit that’s grounded in gratitude.
National Philanthropy Day 2023
Established through a Statute in Canadian Parliament, National Philanthropy Day takes place each year on November 15… For almost 20 years, I have been working to promote the idea that […]