Essays on Gratitude

Imagine you’re a pirate and you’ve just found a treasure. You wipe the sand off the treasure chest and break the lock. When you open it, a feeling of pure contentment and peace overwhelms you. You have become perfectly happy. Happiness is a treasure all…

She is searching for some form of her own identity… have you seen her around? Her hair is long but a little shorter than her simple dress which hangs on her body. Does she sound familiar? She stutters and never stands still, always fidgeting. She…

A teacher shares her experience instructing more seasoned grown-ups the science (and practice) of appreciation. This fall, fifteen grown-ups beyond 50 a years old together in a college classroom to find out about appreciation. They were understudies at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the…