Thank You For Being Our Rock: 30 Days Of Gratitude

MARTINEZ, CA — Martinez Patch reader Wendy M. shared a special thank you to her husband.

"I’m grateful for my spouse who has been by my side for over 28 years and is the rock for our family. He provides and protects and is one of the best handyman guys who saves us money, by fixing and building things on his own. Thank you for your continued love and care for us all!"

30 Days Of Gratitude

Patch's “30 Days Of Gratitude” is a series of articles exploring the intentionality of gratitude and featuring bits of wisdom from Patch readers. Come back to Across America Patch every day through November and read more.

Living with gratitude goes beyond merely being thankful. It doesn't mean pretending bad things don't happen, but rather savoring the goodness, according to experts on the topic, including Robert Emmons, a University of California, Davis, psychology professor who is known as the "father of gratitude."

In short, living with gratitude is "an affirmation of goodness" and a recognition of the good in the world as the source of our individual gifts, benefits and blessings. Gratitude is not singularly focused, Emmons said in a YouTube video for the Greater Good Science Center, but rather recognizes that the sources of goodness are other people who "gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives."

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