Kathy Baker: Expressing gratitude every day

You may think all the gratitude I’m about to express is inspired by Thanksgiving. You may find it hard, at this moment, to feel grateful. Your life may be filled with such tribulation that your overarching response, understandably, is disappointment and an aching heart, rather than gratitude. On the other hand, maybe life has been so good to you that you’ve forgotten to be grateful. Aren’t blessings meant to be taken for granted, you may ask, since they’re so abundant in our lives?

Au contraire, my friend. It seems that we can make time to say hurtful things to one another, to dwell on what we want but can’t have, to spend a lot of time feeling upset by grievances or petty irritations, but we can seldom find time and energy to savor the good stuff. Pretty short-sighted, if you ask me.