Thank you. Hello everyone and welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast.

This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories.

And we are getting grateful over here. We are getting our gratitude on at Sparkle Stories. And we are getting grateful over here. We are getting our gratitude

on at Sparkle Stories. That's in part because we are headed here in the United States

towards the holiday of Thanksgiving in which we like to circle up with our friends and our

families. And we like to get really appreciative and grateful for all the

goodness in our lives. And that's a beautiful practice once a year, and that's a beautiful

practice daily if you can do it. I think it brings such warmth and expansion and goodness into

our lives when we are grateful. And so I have picked a story today that's all about

the power of gratitude. It comes from the gratitude stories collection, and it's called Strong,

warm, and Grateful. It's a Willoughby Tree story, and it features seven-year-old Clancy,

if you know the Willow bee tree kids.

He is having a difficult day.

Nothing's going his way.

And the willow tree, the magical willow tree in his yard, which transports the kids to crazy

places around the world, the willow tree takes him to the forests of Siberia, where he

meets some Siberian cows. And these cows live in

very, very, very harsh cold conditions. But do they complain about it? They do not. Because they use

what to keep them feeling strong and warm? They use gratitude. So listen in and find out about Clancy and these Siberian

cows. Okay, now here's a question for you, Sparkle listeners. We are looking for podcast hosts for

2025. That's next year. We want each of our podcast episodes to be chosen by one of our listeners.

That means you would choose the story we feature. Perhaps it's your very favorite story. You would get

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