That gratitude list—a jingle
I’m glad my children quite like me
I’m glad I am a sister and a friend
glad I belong to a troupe and a team
glad I can half-remember a dream
glad of my sing-song whisper
glad of a good-knee day today
glad I’ve sort-of prepared what to say
glad for my portable Bluetooth PA
glad for the variegated vaccines
glad I can be glad about some things
glad I met a pink and yellow nun
picking early olives in the sun

grateful for the glorious young
grateful for green, also for blue
glad my big project is almost done
glad in a funny way we haven’t won

even a sparrow can be a worry
and who can say they ne regrette rien
so every now and then
I make a little list
of mini-things
and maxi-things that matter
gratis, gratuitous
and worthy of gratitude.
~ Rachel McAlpine
Strongly recommended by happiness researchers as a healthy self-help strategy for happiness: making a daily gratitude list of three things you’re glad about. And maybe add what you did (however small and insignificant) that helped to cause that good thing to happen.
I admit I make a gratitude list only sporadically, say once in a blue moon. But it’s ridiculously easy and it makes sense psychologically. We’re geared to focus on problems because they’re a threat, so we need to fix them or avoid them. That behaviour is only human but it can paint our world dark grey. A gratitude list lets in the light.

I needed that reminder about my Gratitude journal entries – very sporadic – 3 x daily – let me see where this takes me.I enjoyed your poem
Thanks, Alison. Actually doing it sporadically is also fine, I believe.
I love the humor in this jaunty list.
Thank goodness “glad” and “grateful” have many levels from the profound to the downright silly.
Timely! I was thinking this morning that I have so many pleasurable interests right now, I need to sort them so I can stop buzzing randomly from one to the other. Like a honey bee with a surfeit of borage flowers. Then that thought made me grateful!
How bee-eutiful. I’m enjoying my buzzy little brain. (And yours.)
I love your poem. Motivating. ♥️💐
I love that you added the simple things/events in your gratitude list. I journal (most) every day and at the end of my entry, I always write three things I am grateful right then. It is a wonderful way to start the day.
That sounds like an excellent routine. I love habits.
I love the poem.
I have to remember to make a gratitude list more often- great “attitude adjuster”.
That’s cool.