Welcome to Gratitude Watch.
Gratitude Watch is an eye on the internet for news, articles, videos, and other items, all focusing on the subject of gratitude.
For more on my intent on these postings, see About Gratitude Watch.
And now, let’s rock!
• This is The New Stuff •
“A Gratitude Jar” from Coleen & Kelly at Just Spotted. An excellent idea for getting the whole family in on the gratitude act.
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Kristin Robertson at The Everyday Mystic offers “Practicing Gratitude,” a good reminder that times like these with so many apparent hardships around us is the time to practice gratitude.
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“How Do Appreciation and Gratitude Affect Your Life?” from Jonathan Wells at Advanced Life Skills. In this, Jonathan notes “8 Tremendously Important Ways That Gratitude Can Change Your Life.”
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Emily Powers at Hodge Podge Art launches the “Gratitude is an Attitude Sketch Challenge” for all you Photoshop wizards. Attitude is welcome on this one.
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At Soul Rain, Kelli Summers Sorg, United Methodist pastor in rural North Carolina talks about living in grace and gratitude and the parable of the talents in “Living in Fear?”
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“Review: Living The Law Of Attraction.” Yes to Me’s Akemi Gaines offers a well-written review of Living the Law of Attraction by Rich German and Robin Hoch, which cites gratitude as part of the first step in using the Law of Attraction.
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The unnamed blogger at Funny Quotes give us “Thanksgiving Day Quotes and Sayings,” which naturally include quotes on gratitude … some of which I had never heard before.
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Esther at Inside our Box posts “In Gratitude for Sleepless Nights,” a good reminder of keeping a perspective.
(On sidebar of the blog is an odd little box-shaped house, and it is explained in the “About Me” block: “It was our good fortune to find and purchase the ugliest house in the world which we now live in.”)
• Oldies but Goodies •
Abraham: Appreciation vs. Gratitude – Esther & Jerry Hicks
The entity Abraham, speaking through Esther Hicks, makes a distinction between appreciation and gratitude and explains why appreciation is so powerful in transforming our experience. Abraham/Esther also notes how we can cultivate appreciation, how we can use it, and why an emphasis on gratitude is less effective. (Hmmm ….)
(If you feel channeling is the work of the devil, then you’ll want to pass on this one, pal.)
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Ran across this excellent article on gratitude on Wikipedia posted without citation on a blog that shall remain nameless. (“I know, I need content for my blog — I’ll just steal it from Wikipedia!” No class at all, bud.)
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The Journey of the Gratitude Train. A little-known piece of post WW-II history, wherein France expressed gratitude toward the United States for the liberation of their country from German occupation. (Okay … maybe I’ll stop calling them “freedom fries.”)
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Stay tuned for the next Gratitude Watch.
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