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.
All kinds of stuff out there. I ran across a post about a post on someone expressing gratitude for her breasts. Didn’t even go there.
Anyway … let’s rock!
• This is The New Stuff •
Another video from Cathy Mott (who still may or may not be YouTube user letterstomyfather …. still can’t tell) gives us “Waiting for Me,” a reminder that we can be grateful for us, too. The video features the song “Grace” by Bryan Ingram.
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Julie Obermiller at Sunny Side Up returns with “Reverse gratitude,” and makes some a very good points about some people we probably have all envied now and then.
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Ali Hale at Dumb Little Man (?) gives us “Ten Simple Things We Should All Say More Often.” Yes, “thank you,” is what I’m going after here, but some of the others are worth thinking about.
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Jacey Tramutt at Cultivate Confidence gives us “The Power of Gratitude” — of how a picture on a refrigerator can straighten up our priorities in a heartbeat.
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At SubmitYourArticle.com, Colleen Lilly gives us “Entitlement,” suggesting the root of our unhappiness is a lack of gratitude. (Going once … going twice … sold to the curmudgeon with the odd little blog.)
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That Snazzy iPhone Guy gives us another review of the iPhone/ iPod Touch gratitude journal application “Gratitude!” — this one on video.
Fair warning — this video opens WITH SOME SURPRISINGLY LOUD ROCK AND ROLL!
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Elizabeth at Unpathed waters, undreamed shores gives us “my own private wonderland.” Normally I pass on personal expressions of gratitude, but this expression is so lucid, and so clearly what has been called an experience of “flow,” that I wanted to share it.
I feel that in recognizing that such moments are possible, we invite them to happen in our own lives. Jump in.
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Bud Hennekes at A Boundless World gives us “Ten Reasons Why You’re Not Happy.” Three guesses what one of them is. First two don’t count.
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YouTube user shawnnorthcutt gives us “Grateful: Adiemus.”
I had to research this a bit (unfortunately the information on the YouTube page was minimal). “Grateful” was actually only the name of the event, an evening of a new mixed chorus called Resounding Harmony, conducted by Dallas-area conductor Tim Seelig. “Adiemus,” the music itself, composed by British composer Karl Jenkins, actually has no lyrical content — the words are all simply collections of phonemes — hence, there is no lyrical “message” to the piece whatsoever. Except that it is utterly gorgeous.
Give it a listen. This is beautiful.
• Oldies but Goodies •
Brenda Arnall at It’s a New Day gives us “A Gratitude Project,” the introduction to The Gratitude Project, an online forum to help encourage users in the practice of being grateful.
The followup: “A Grateful Beginning,” where she thanks Lisa Wilkins for her help in designing and setting up an “online home” for the project.
Think you could use a gratitude support group? Then The Gratitude Project may just be for you.
Thanks to Donna Brisbois for pointing me to The Gratitude Project.
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If you have a substantive posting about gratitude (please see my “About Gratitude Watch” page) feel free to email me a link through my contact page, or “tweet” me on Twitter.
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Stay tuned for the next Gratitude Watch.
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