Gratitude For Neighbors In New Rochelle: 30 Days Of Gratitude

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — All month, Patch is asking readers to share who they're grateful for. New Rochelle resident Joe Romano thanks his neighbors for making a co-op a home.

Here's the message Pickett shared:

To the members of White Oak Co-op, I just want to thank you all for for giving a home to my wife, Linda and myself. It was no small thing to move back down to this area at this point in our lives, and you all have given us a community and a home where we feel welcome and safe, and a part of something. We appreciate you all so much, as well as the staff. It is a huge thing for us to have a comfortable place we can call home where we are [surrounded] by so many nice people. Thank you so much, and may God bless you all.

Living with gratitude is a matter of continually counting one’s blessings while at the same time recognizing that the source of goodness in one’s life is other people.

Patch will continue publishing stories like this one for "30 Days Of Gratitude," a series to remind us of the goodness and joy in our lives. We want to share the gratitude as widely as we can, and invite you to fill out the form below to show thanks for someone in your life. Your response may be featured on Patch.

Come back to Across America Patch every day through November and read more.

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.”