Every single one of us can look back on our lives and be grateful. I understand I am privileged compared to many, but each of us could have suffered more; could have but haven’t.

Living with gratitude expands what is possible to experience. When we open up to the world, to this strange phenomenon called life, we can more wholly and thoroughly enjoy the time allotted to us.

Paradoxically it’s easy to become removed from gratitude, all too normalized to get away from it. But once you return to its vortex, it seems foolish to leave.