Gratitude For Neighbors In Upper Nyack: 30 Days Of Gratitude

UPPER NYACK, NY — All month, Patch is asking readers to share who they're grateful for. Upper Nyack resident Frances Wells is grateful for her neighbors.

Here's the message Wells shared:

"I’m grateful for the warmth and friendliness of my neighbors on Van Houten Street."

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.”