This is the Tom Hartman program.

Our prayer of thanks by Carl Sandberg

for the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening on the weeds at the river, our prayer of thanks.

For the laughter of children who tumble barefooted bare-headed on the summer grass,

our prayer of thanks.

For the sunset and the stars, the women and the white arms that hold us, a prayer of thanks. If you are deaf and blind God is this all

lost to you. God if the dead in their coffins amid the silver handles on the edge of town or the reckless

dead of war, thrown unknown in pits, if these dead are forever deaf and blind and lost

our prayer of thanks

got the game is all your way the secrets and the signals and the systems

and so for the break of the game and the first play and the last, our prayer of thanks.

We express gratitude not only for the recipient, but for the sender of the gratitude. It improves mood, it improves sleep,

it sends signals of oxytocin, it improves relationships, relationships,

productivity, it improves health.

This isn't me talking, this is Berkeley talking,

this is UC Santa Barbara talking, studies done about the power having gratitude as part of our

lives.

And there is a lot to be frustrated about.

There's a lot to be frustrated about.

There's a lot to be afraid of.

There's plenty to be sad for.

But what are we grateful for?

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