Ever since your first cry, you have been transforming everything that came your way. You are a living transformer. First – the body. Things go in and come out. Food becomes energy, then excrement. The lungs are pistons. Air comes in, feeds the blood, air … continue reading
This month’s news focuses on kindness in education; how farming is empowering black farmers; new leadership at Esalen promotes healing the “Inner Net”; an unexpected intergenerational friendship; and innovative roofing to transform homes in slums. Can Kindness Be Taught? Thanks to a challenge from the … continue reading
This month’s Grateful News focuses on the remarkable post-war rise of Hiroshima; how genetic research gives a sense of belonging; a woman giving hope to young girls in her home town; a new vocabulary for climate change that can aid meaningful action; how soccer is … continue reading
A Network for Grateful Living offers sanctuary and engagement 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – Word for the Day, Light a Candle, eCards, Br. David’s Archives, the Library of Resources, Practice Space, Gratitude Lounge, and more. Our non-profit work brings comfort, inspiration and hope to many … continue reading
Everybody alive today exists at the tip of Time’s arrow, at the pinnacle of Being, the highest summit of evolution. This Present, in which we exist at each and every moment of our lives, happens to be the most advanced point of the most advanced … continue reading
This month’s Grateful News focuses on a brave woman finding earthquake survivors; a beautiful new alternative to wigs during cancer treatments; a man who comforts the terminally ill who otherwise would have no one; the discovery of Einstein’s thoughts on happiness, and video proof that … continue reading
Not taking the blessings of peace for granted, we offer our perpetual thanksgiving. Every day. Today is World Gratitude Day. It is also the International Day of Peace. What a harmonic convergence of goodness. It seems only so fitting that both these occasions would make … continue reading
Grateful minds imagine big ideas like justice, peace, and health. Our world needs no less than grateful living. Right now. I started working on my gratitude newsletter in July of 2016. The tone of the 2016 United States Presidential campaign left me no choice but … continue reading
This month’s news includes generosity during Hurricane Harvey; a great advance in cancer treatment; a new kind of grocery story; an ingenious use of carbon emissions; amazing new energy-harnessing clothes; and businesses stepping up to save precious wild spaces in the U.S…. How a Mattress … continue reading
There may be little or much beyond the grave but the strong are saying nothing until they see. – Robert Frost In Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, he asks, “To be or not to be?” He is talking about suicide, and “to be” means, in the context … continue reading