I did it. For an entire year. Yay me.
One year ago, on December 8, 2011, I started writing down two things every day for which I feel grateful.
see my post here
726 entries later I've covered many sorts of things including childhood, schooling, family, modern conveniences, kindnesses, opportunities.
I did not repeat entries, so even though there were numerous gorgeous weather days, for which I was grateful, I only included that one time.
Some days' entries were easy to write, they were obvious. Other days, I had to struggle to come up with something new.
Some entries are items to be grateful for all the time, while other entries pertained to that day only like being grateful I caught the bus.
I'm thinking of printing out the list and reviewing it, maybe two a day again. Because I found that although the exercise of writing down two things a day was excellent, now I think I will benefit from going over the list and giving more thought to the items I wrote down.
I had a talk today with one of my granddaughters about what life was like before indoor plumbing, electricity, and child labor laws. It was a big revelation that there were no Jewish schools for girls prior to 100 years ago.
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