That starts my mindset of gratefulness; I can then let it expand as the day unfolds.
In my year of gratefulness there was something sweet about spreading out the thanks and being able to delight in the details of life.
My antipathy to enforced gratefulness is the result, or perhaps the cause, of my mother's belief that gift-giving is partly a test of the recipient's manners.
As a Jew, I do have a certain amazed gratefulness that my ancestors managed to survive this century, let alone this millennium, so that I could be here to think about it.
I'm grateful to my legal team for getting me a day in court, and to everyone around the world, male and female, who have reached out to express support in so many different ways, and to tell me that my story is their story too, and their gratefulness to me for telling my story.
After a week's reflection on Ray's passing, gratefulness has replaced my stinging tears.
Right there, I learned gratefulness and understood that my situation could have been worse.
I repeated these afternoon-long street performance countless times over the course of three years, with no reward other than the gratefulness of some of my visitors for having stumbled upon something that could, at times, become unexpectedly cathartic for both them and myself.
"Later, I approached a point in my life that to continue, because of gratefulness, to keep quiet about what I'm truly concerned with and feeling horrible… I couldn't.
