Welcome to the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno.

Many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the physiological to the sociopolitical.

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release it here as a bonus episode.

So tis the season. And I sincerely hope that you find a moment of respite during these holidays.

Experiment with a new recipe or two and congregate with friends and family around the communal table.

This is the time to reflect and cultivate gratitude for the miracle of life's simple gifts.

A few weeks back, I had the marvelous opportunity to interview filmmaker and director Louis

Schwartzberg on the release of his new Piesteus, titled Gratitude Revealed.

Now, the documentary has inspired me to move beyond the memes of social media and the incessant quote cards

and excavate this somewhat elusive emotion and virtue.

And I've been asking myself questions like,

what is the relationship between gratitude and being present? Or between gratitude and nature and being in nature.

And how do we leverage gratitude practices to move from state gratitude, essentially a transitory

feeling of thankfulness, to trait gratitude, a permanent type of gratefulness that perfumes our

unconscious being. It becomes part of our bottom-up behavior. These are interesting questions,

and I poke at the gratefulness of gratitude in this week's memoriam to my beloved Nana.

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