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Tell Someone In Huntersville Youโ€™re Grateful For Them

Write a letter showing your gratitude for someone or something in Huntersville, and we'll publish it in November.

Patch wants to know who and what youโ€™re grateful for in Huntersville. Weโ€™ll publish your letter as part of our โ€œ30 Days Of Gratitudeโ€ series.
Patch wants to know who and what youโ€™re grateful for in Huntersville. Weโ€™ll publish your letter as part of our โ€œ30 Days Of Gratitudeโ€ series. (Getty Images)

HUNTERSVILLE, NC โ€” Patchโ€™s โ€œ30 Days Of Gratitudeโ€ will run throughout the November with stories about living with gratitude โ€” in simple terms, a deliberate choice to see the goodness and joy in your life and to wish the same for your neighbors.

Living with gratitude is a matter of continually counting oneโ€™s blessings while at the same time recognizing that the source of goodness in oneโ€™s life is other people.

One goal of our โ€œ30 Days Of Gratitude" series is to show our appreciation for all the people and things that make our lives richer. We invite you to fill out the form below and write a letter of thanks to a person, group or thing that makes life in Huntersville better.

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Weโ€™ll publish your letter here on Huntersville Patch as part of our โ€œ30 Days Of Gratitudeโ€ series.

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Robert A. Emmons, a University of California, Davis, psychology professor known as the โ€œfather of gratitude,โ€ said this of gratitude:

โ€œGratitude is an affirmation of the goodness in oneโ€™s life and the recognition that the sources of this goodness lie at least partially outside the self. It emerges from two-stages of information processing: affirming and recognizing. Gratitude is the recognition that life owes me nothing and all the good I have is a gift. It is a response to all that has been given. So it is foundationally and fundamentally a way of looking at life.โ€

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