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I don’t remember how, but a little while back I stumbled across the website 29gifts.org.  Its whole focus, or purpose, is to encourage people to give to others – anything – from a smile, to a card, to money, clothes, anything to take the focus off of ourselves, and place it on someone else in need.

My mom and I were talking today about living a life of gratitude, and I remembered this site.  I’m going to start tomorrow   The hard part for me, I think, is that I work from 11am – 11pm, and will have to find a way to give while at work.  I guess that really won’t be hard – there should be plenty of ways to give – and I’m open to seeing how 

I feel like I spend too much of my time worrying about silly stuff.  I mean, REALLY silly stuff.  Like, “will I be able to get to the fabric store this weekend (to up my stash)” or “I don’t really want to go to work today (instead of, damn – I’m so grateful to have a job that I enjoy)” or “which diet do I want to try today (instead of, Thank you, God, for the abundance of food and clean water)”.  I don’t spend enough time in a grateful state of mind, and I’m hoping to get to the point where I’m in a relatively constant state of “appreciate living”.

The Haiti earthquake only serves to remind me to be so grateful for all of my gifts, and to be ever mindful of how to help others around me.

I’ll chronicle here how I’ve giving, day by day – hopefully it will inspire you to get on board and give to others around you in need!