Gratitude

Thanksgiving is often travel time for my family. This year, the kids aske to go to New York City, so we did.I spent the trip pouring out gratitude, for everything from the small to the life changing.A quote I recently saw reminded me of this trip. "Gratitude isn’t all about what’s going right. It’s about finding a little bit of light in the moment we’re in." It's from Mary Davis.Gratitude is a daily practice for me and it's helped me incredibly. One of our stops was the 9/11 Museum, where I'd never been. But I was impacted more than the people I was living near in Maryland on Sept. 11 because I was from New York and I knew people who were killed in the Towers. I ended up moving back to New York a few months after and covered many funerals that year. Funerals of firefighters and others who worked in the Towers.I was really touched by the World Trade Center site. It was both loud and quiet. There was a palpable feeling of reverence for this sacred space. I felt connected automatically to strangers around me. It strikes me that this is perhaps this time of year is the most important for gratitude. It will help make it magical and meaningful. It can make all the difference.Links from this episode:My Book! Living in the Gray – A Memoir About Navigating Life’s ParadoxesInsight TimerMary Davis, authorIf you heard yourself in today’s episode, you’re not alone.My book, Living in the Gray gathers ten years of writing about living inside life’s tensions — the both/and moments that shape who we become. It’s a deeper look at the questions behind these conversations.Visit my website or Amazon to explore the book, and join me on social media:InstagramLinkedIn:FacebookSubstack