The Necessity of Gratitude

And the cutest thank you ever in honour of the common spud 🥔

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I’m grateful for a lot including my friends, family and the online community of Substack writers, readers and subscribers.

I’m done cleaning and tidying my place and was just about to start cooking (no turkey for me as I’m vegetarian) and then this video happened to play just now. I felt the message was a propos, so very timely. From the YouTube blurb:

Gratitude used to be called the “parent of all virtues”, and its presence indicates the natural nobility of the human soul. We are most human and most alive when we allow ourselves to be touched by the beauty of the world and when we feel genuine gratitude for the life we have been given, no matter how hard or how dark the world around us has become. In this way, expressing gratitude helps to bring grace back into the world. More than ever, we need moments of wholeness and unity to rekindle our spirits and to ease our souls. We need occasions of grace and gratitude, however small they may be. We need to feel that life, despite all the existing divisions and conflicts, retains a sense of holiness, so that occasions of gratitude, however small they may be, can enable more grace to enter the world.

Also I want to thank those that joined last Sunday in person at our Sane Jacket Potato Gathering. As one of the attendees wrote in an email to me the next day:

I always appreciate an evening (or any event) with people from Team Sanity. The group yesterday was interesting. There are definitely big variations in people’s beliefs and understanding of things, but I am so happy that conversation is always civilized. We all need to do our part to promote civil discussions and curiosity!

Let me know if you live in the Bay Area and if you would like to meet more Sane minds and join us for the next event.

Cutie Pie Alert!

Speaking of potatoes, I know this short video took place on another holiday, but isn’t this just the cutest, most sincere “thank you” one could ever witness for a simple gift?

May we all be as grateful and excited for the humble gifts that are often taken for granted!