Uncommon Gratitude

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November 29, 2020 a project of ServiceSpace Beauty is the antidote to grief and despair, and it is the one sure thing I can bring to bear when I confront a place that has fallen on hard times. - Trebbe Johnson - Uncommon Gratitude "Before me lies a slope of wild grasses, saturated in the copper light of early autumn. Insects dabble in wild asters and Queen Anne's lace, and animal trails wind through the dense greenery. But just where the terrain should plunge steeply through a woodland of maple, beech, cherry, and ash trees, it flattens out like a gigantic tennis court or helicopter landing pad. What just a few weeks earlier and for many thousands of years before had been a hillside in rural northeastern Pennsylvania has been sliced in half by a five--acre concrete slab. It is, in fact, the site of a new gas pad." Trebbe Johnson shares more in this essay on giving thanks to wounded places. { read more } Be The Change Give gratitude for a wounded place in your own life and landscape today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 111 Trees Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus This is Me at 68: Elders Reflect During Crisis How to Be Yourself The Joy of Being a Woman in Her Seventies Orion's 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade 5 Core Practices for More Meaningful Conversations The Monkey and the River DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 246,011 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More