This admirably restrained yet devastating book is full of such moments that quietly "reinvent" – as one of the grateful child survivors of Le Chambon put it as an adult – what it is to demonstrate true human dignity.
Anyone can point to any of us and challenge us to name ten things we are grateful for, and each and every one of us can be grateful for this one thing -- that we have life itself.
One learns with a sense of grateful triumph that Einstein wrote Freud: "I always find it amusing to observe that even people who regard themselves as 'unbelievers' with regard to your teachings offer such little resistance to your ideas that they actually think and speak in your concepts the moment they let themselves go".
Rhea Isaacs, a native of Minneapolis, is one of many who are grateful.
Though her influences are eclectic, her approach to jazz is straightforward, combining inventive, wistful melodies with subtle Latin beats, presented in uncomplicated arrangements (you can listen to one of her best songs, "Grateful Friendship," here).
I was one of them, and was grateful for the hope I could change my behavior.
My friend Larry Kramer -- novelist, playwright, activist, fighter -- is unwell at the moment, and while I wait and pray for his recovery, I want to tell you about what he achieved in his life, and why every one of us should be grateful to him.
"It's not happiness that makes you grateful," goes one of my favorite recent quotes (thanks, Joann Lee), "it's being grateful that makes you happy".
(The two remain close since they split last year, and Garfield is generous about the ex now tipped to win the best actress Oscar for La La Land. "I'm always cheering Emma on, in all ways. I'm one of the millions who is grateful that she exists").
