What a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer Taught Me About Gratitude
Finding great beauty in the small
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5 min readNov 23, 2021
For many years, we’d gather around the Thanksgiving table and engage in a familiar ritual. One by one, we’d answer a simple question: “What are you grateful for?”
When my turn came, I would invariably rattle off the big stuff: family, friends, coffee. Then I moved to Japan…