Thank You To The Martinez Library Staff: 30 Days Of Gratitude

MARTINEZ, CA — Charles Harrington in Martinez shared a special thank you to everyone at the Martinez Library.

"To the entire staff at the Martinez Library-THANK YOU!!! You have helped me get through this COVID distraction with reading and relaxing. Thank you all for being consistently helpful and nice."

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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