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A GROUNDING IN GRATITUDE Harold turning the soil Getting in Gratitude Shape Perhaps, dear reader, you are one of those enlightened souls who goes around humming hymns and thanking God for his manifold blessings— all day, every day. If so, good on you. (Seriously, good on you!) But perhaps you are like the other 98.2% of us who ?nd it easier to count our irritations, challenges, annoyances, etc., etc., than count our blessings. Our gratitude muscles have grown ?abby through lack of use, making it so much easier to sit on the couch and whine than muster the energy to perform the exhausting exercise of thankfulness.