{"id":10352,"date":"2015-07-19T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:09:22","slug":"a-tradition-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10352","title":{"rendered":"A tradition of gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I have been working at in the last few years is cultivating a attitude of appreciation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Part of that has been making lists. Thinking about things that make me happy. Things that are beautiful. Things that bring me peace. &nbsp;Sometimes I write them in the form of a blog. This morning, after watching two people I love get married, as I sit in bed drinking coffee, feeling thankful for a warm bed, AC and coffee in bed, I wondered how many times I&#8217;d written about thankfulness. It turns out that I&#8217;ve written 21 posts containing the word thankful, 30 containing the word grateful, 17 containing silver linings. A lot of gratitude. Enough? I don&#8217;t know if you can ever be grateful enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-2aX\">Being thankful<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-9F\">A very incomplete list of things I am thankful for. Very. Incomplete.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-2Fv\">Gratitude with a T<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-2n0\">A long week<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-1Ac\">On being poor..or rather, poorer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-18x\">On gratitude<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-JA\">Time and a prayer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-Ig\">Thank you, thank you, thank you<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-y1\">Silver linings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-2Fr\">Reasons to be grateful, list 4,982<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/s4FR8-1496\">Sick is as sick does, in which I am grateful to be so lucky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/s4FR8-fridays\">Friday. Smiling.&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-2fk\">Bad experiences as a catalyst for good<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-2ep\">An imaginary conversation about having nothing to say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-29N\">Silver linings, always with the silver linings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-282\">Keeping it simple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-1TU\">Friends, who needs &#8217;em? Me. You.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-OX\">The incredible lightness of being whiny and sick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-2uP\">Too distracted for writing&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-23n\">An imaginary conversation about birthdays<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-26f\">There will be a brief decrease in my intelligence level&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-25K\">Seasonal girl<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did I notice any trends?<\/p>\n<p>A few.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love and am grateful for my friends and family. I seem to look really hard for silver linings when I am sick or in a bad emotional space. I am really thankful for small things and laughter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The word lucky appears in over 50 posts. I think of myself as a fortunate person, and it shows. Maybe it should show even more!<br \/>\nCongratulations to Shayla and Nok on their wedding yesterday and for the upcoming birth of their first son. You two are surrounded by love and laughter. You will do well!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4FR8-1TU\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I have been working at in the last few years is cultivating a attitude of appreciation.&nbsp; Part of that has been making lists. Thinking about things that make me happy. Things that are beautiful. Things that bring me peace. &nbsp;Sometimes I write them in the form of a blog. This morning, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A tradition of gratitude<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2GY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":599,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=599","url_meta":{"origin":10352,"position":0},"title":"A very incomplete list of things I am thankful for. 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