💚 Gratitude for the things we don’t think about

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Pause.

Find a quiet place with some privacy. Find a way that feels comfortable for you to kneel or bow. Then repeat the words “thank you” at your own pace, silently or out loud. Spend two minutes in this attitude and posture of gratefulness.

Prompt.

Take five minutes to write a whole bunch of very short thank you notes to the things you see in your immediate environment. Be direct and specific (“Thank you pen for not being out of ink.”).

This will feel silly, but write as many thanks to as many different things as you can in five minutes.

Practice.

Pick one of the objects you just thanked, one that feels like you just now really notice it. Write about it for 8 minutes.

Observe it closely. How is it made? What does it look like, feel like? What can you imagine about the person who dreamed it up, designed it? How much intention and work, trial and error might have been put into this object before it came to your space?

Want More?
Listen to some micro stories embedded in everyday things at 99% Invisible

Nicole Parsons

Nicole Parsons is a spiritual director with an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction, and almost everything she knows she learned from stories. She is a Co-prior of Associates in the Order of Julian of Norwich, an Episcopalian Benedictine monastic community. She calls Westcliffe, Colorado home.

Learn more about Nicole and her writing and work at nicolepparsons.com.

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