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.
- So … let’s rock!
• Something Visual •
At Tangle, Deborah Norville, host of Inside Edition (and Twitter user @DeborahNorville) talks about her New York Times bestselling book on gratitude, Thank You Power. (Thank You Power is on my recommended books list.)
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Very much an oddity, but one worth note: “TV zombies at the Capitol” a gratitude demonstration in Austin, where “zombie televisions” thank lawmakers for passing a television recycling bill with the looming national (American) switch to digital television, to help mitigate the upcoming surge of analog televisions about to be discarded.
Think about this for a moment: a gratitude demonstration? A public mass display of appreciation? To politicians?
Huh?
You! — What planet is this!?
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New member of my frequent gratitude contributors, the “League of Gratitude,” Jo Englesson, founder of TOFA (“Token OF Appreciation”) — and Twitter user @JoEnglesson — gives us “Giving Year Day 32 – Kathy from Albertsons.”
One of the things that jumped out at me in this video is that the recipient “opened up” when she receives the token, and in turn shares something touching when we learn who will receive the token from her.
Gratitude changes people. Thank you, Jo, for demonstrating this so well.
• (The Rest of) the “League of Gratitude” •
Brenda Arnall at It’s a New Day gives us “A Rewarding Blessing,” in which she reminds us to consciously take those moments to celebrate the rewards of our hard work. Brenda also shares the latest installment of her 52 Blessings gratitude journal craft project.
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Newest member of my “League of Gratitude,” Maya, of The Gratitude Journal, gives us “I Am Thankful to Be a Child of the Universe,” (and gave me a laugh out loud moment) with this account of an evening dominated by a tedious genealogist who fortunately traced his lineage only part-way back to Adam …
(And no, I’m not finishing that statement. Describing it would spoil it. Honest.)
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Just a note: I’d like to thank Maya for “I Am Thankful for Online Friends,” for her expression of gratitude and support for Gratitude Watch, and for … me. Yes, Maya, you certainly “get” gratitude, too, and I consider you a friend as well.
• This is The New Stuff •
Dys at Dyskinesia: (n.) difficulty with voluntary movement shares “A Life of Gratitude — Memorial Day 2009,” a lengthy but absolutely heart-warming and heart-breaking tribute to her grandfather. Read this post. And make sure the tissues are handy for this one. You’ll need them.
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Robyn Hessinger at Care2 (Care2 is, not surprisingly, Twitter user @care2) offers “Tweet Your Gratitude,” and explains #caretuesday … which is a way to express thanks for individuals or groups through a Twitter “hashtag” thing … which won’t make a bit of sense to you reading these words at this very moment if you’re not a Twitter user already.
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Kristin Heslop at Lose Weight Through Pleasure (hmmm …) gives us “Gratitude? For This Body?” — and shows us how gratitude can be used to help us … (forgive me) … not throw out the body with the bathwater.
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Monte (“Foodsmith”) at Notes from an Escalator gives us “On gratitude,” some commentary on a New York Times blog post “Do You Thank Your Spouse Too Much?” (I’m pleased someone commented on this, and I am in agreement with Monte’s points … thank you, ma’am.)
• Oldy but Goody •
The seventh chapter of The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Delois Wattles — as well as the rest of the book — can be read online at The Internet Sacred Text Archive. As it so happens, the seventh chapter of the book is entitled “Gratitude.” In it is this remarkable and totally politically incorrect statement: “Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, they cut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.”
You tell ‘em, Wally.
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Stay tuned for the next Gratitude Watch.
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I’m grateful that my blog and I made your gratitude watch list! Thanks you so much–and I loved the pun, by the way!
Kristin –
Thanks for the note. I did feel like that gag was a little risky. *Shwew!*
– Daniel