Meghan Telpner's blog, Making Love in the Kitchen (it's about healthy eating!), today featured an entry on the health benefits of gratitude. If you look around the internet, you'll find a number of articles, books, and blogs talking about new research in this area over the past few years. (Here's one summary from the Harvard Medical School.) Lower stress and a happier life are certainly good reasons to be thankful!This isn't surprising news to those out there who follow some faith or religion; most teach the spiritual practice of gratitude. From 1 Thessalonians 5:18a, "In every thing, give thanks." (KJV)
Said Henry Van Dyke:
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.I thought I might do this as a regular entry, and I decided that November was a nice time to start. I realize that I am so fortunate and blessed. I have so much that others don't have - some on the other side of the world, some in my own neighborhood. I hope that I can be thankful and use what I have to help others!
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This Thursday, I am thankful for clean water.
It's funny, how bottled water has become such a commodity in the United States, where we have some of the cleanest drinking water right out of the tap. Some blind taste studies found people pick New York City tap water over Evion for taste! Now, let me confess. We filter our drinking water. I prefer the taste (avoids algae blooms) and I like getting some of the added chemicals from the municipal system out. But I am so very fortunate that I can choose to do that or not. And, I can get it from the tap in multiple rooms within my home and at my workplace!
What do you do to conserve water? What are your top 3 water uses?
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