Are You Grateful For Someone In Rancho Santa Margarita? Patch Wants To Hear From You

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA — What are you most grateful for these days? Patch wants to know, and share your gratefulness with your neighbors in Rancho Santa Margarita.

Patch’s “30 Days Of Gratitude” — running throughout November — is a tribute to living with gratitude. In simple terms, we all make a deliberate choice to see the goodness and joy in our lives and wish the same for our neighbors.

Think of it, as a wise reporter once told me, as living with "an attitude of gratitude."

How do we do this? Remember to count your blessings and do your best to recognize that oftentimes, we can be blessings to one another in our daily lives.

Patch's “30 Days Of Gratitude" series is designed to show our appreciation for all the people and things that make our lives richer.

We invite you to fill out the form below and write a letter of thanks to a person, group or thing that makes life in Rancho Santa Margarita better.

We’ll publish your letter here on Rancho Santa Margarita Patch as part of our “30 Days Of Gratitude” series.

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Robert A. Emmons, a University of California, Davis, psychology professor known as the “father of gratitude,” said this of gratitude:

“Gratitude is an affirmation of the goodness in one’s life and the recognition that the sources of this goodness lie at least partially outside the self.

It emerges from two stages of information processing: affirming and recognizing. Gratitude is the recognition that life owes me nothing and all the good I have is a gift. It is a response to all that has been given. So it is foundationally and fundamentally a way of looking at life.”