An excerpt from a friend, “It’s about recognizing and acknowledging the blessings and positive aspects of your life, and expressing appreciation for them.”
I spent some time thinking about this recently. This word pops up alot in my life from spells here, and elsewhere, to lists in journals, to pages in scrapbooks… It’s so ubiquitous a concept, so powerfully recommended so constantly that you stop seeing these prompts to be grateful. It’s happened to me before as well.
That’s sad.
Being grateful is powerful because it helps even see those positive things that do exist in our lives, one of the best antidotes to depression and unhappiness that I know of, but it’s also a call to care.
When we get tired of the prompts, or worse stop seeing them altogether, we’ve lost a bit of our capacity to care about the world around us.
By stopping to design spellwork around it, we’re reminding ourselves not only that there are indeed nice things in our lives, but that we do indeed care.
Random thoughts on 3 hours of sleep 
Thanks for listening.
