Song Club #70: Gratitude

Gratitude can be a confronting space to excavate

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Some months ago now, at my favorite open mic we were given a prompt to write a ‘gratitude song’. It was a fun prompt because gratitude songs are kind of cheesy, IMHO. It was challenging to write an honest, truly gratitudinal song. I ended up uncovering some interesting truths about the things for which I’m actually grateful.

(I wrote about this in more specificity in Song Club #45 Hidden Messages).

I think the reason it can hard to write a gratitude song is that gratitude is an easily overlooked emotion. You have to practice finding it—at least I do.

And but also, something funny happens when contemplating feelings of gratitude because we don’t always have it for the things we believe we’re supposed to have it for. It is a confronting space to excavate.

For these reasons, this week I am sharing ‘Entry Points’ related to gratitude.

Thanks for reading,
Lucy

‘Entry Points’