Tonight's thoughts center around gratitude. Let's break that down...grat-i-tude...
"Grat." Like gratis or great.
Wordreference.com says it's latin for "pleasing" or "thankful" or "favorable," so I guess it could be all those, too. Maybe it's that pleased or favorable feeling we get when we accomplish something or get what we wanted, and so we end up feeling thankful for it. Like in con-GRAT-ulations, meaning "with pleased oobilations," oobilations being the joyful "celebrations" or really, states of being. So, again "congratulations" are statements "with pleased states of being."
Still, it seems like something is missing, perhaps a sense of humility, there in our definition of "grat." But gratuitous starts with grat, so maybe not.
"I" (pronnounced "ih.") It's just there.
And "tude," which we all know from the word "attiTUDE, " meaning, mental and emotional state put together.
So, grat-i-tude could be summed up as the soulful state of humble thanks.
And that's what I'm feeling tonight.
Over the past year I have sustained an income of about $800/month (give or take) and booked about 1 job per month through my agency.
This month (since the time Cigi had a job change) I have booked 1 job per week.
Pay tithing, cuz it works. I'm just saying.
(Written November 2018)
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