You are probably already aware that people who express gratitude — even to themselves, even acknowledging one thing a day they’re grateful for — tend to be healthier overall, mentally and physically. Cultivating gratitude and noticing things to be grateful or happy for contribute to this good health significantly, in fact.

My friend Kara and I were talking the other day about my previous years doing 30 Days of Gratitude posts on social media, and I decided to do it on my blog this year. I might not post to the blog every single day, but I’m going to try and post something for every day this month. I invite you to do the same in the comments! We can build a community of noticing the good things.

And yes, I know the world is full of terrible things right now. I’m not ignoring them, not at all! But doomscrolling and miring ourselves ONLY in those terrible things will make us bonkers and ineffective to resist them. (Monsters love that. Don’t give in to it.)

So here we go!

November 1st — My son lost his phone at a concert Friday night, and Saturday a very nice stranger found the phone and called us to return it. Yay! (And way to go, my son, for putting my phone number in your emergency contacts. Double gratitude!)

November 2nd — Although it had its ups and downs, my weekend at Comic Indie Con (yesterday and today) was overall pretty good. I really enjoyed the people I met.

So how about you all? What’s making you grateful today? Tell us in the comments so we can be happy about it with you.