August 21st marked the end of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. World-class athletes from all corners of the globe have returned home, some with medals marking their incredible accomplishments. As those games come to a close, however, a new set of games is just on the horizon: the Compassion Games. No plane […]
This past Sunday, May 8th was not just Mother’s Day. It also marked the end of National Wildflower Week. The week was started by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, because of the former first lady’s belief that wildflowers “give us a sense of where we are in this great land of […]
Louie Schwartzberg’s lengthy career has been dedicated to capturing the beauty of nature using pioneering time-lapse techniques that take us on journeys through time and scale. As beautiful as these images are, they also come with a deeper purpose. “Beauty is nature’s tool for survival,” Louie is often quoted as saying, “we protect what we […]
In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, we have a very special interview for you. We had the pleasure of speaking to Sean Watkins, the social media manager at GreenFaith (a Gratitude Revealed partner!), an interfaith coalition for the environment that was founded in 1992. If “faith” and “environment” seem like a contradiction of terms to you now, just […]
Lynne Twist speaks with an urgency that is so captivating, it wakes you up. She has witnessed and lived among a world few of us will ever know. When the majority of us would quickly resort to anger, scolding and despair, Twist exudes genuine and contagious hopefulness in her voice, having great faith in our […]
Gratitude Revealed is made possible through the support of a grant from The John Templeton Foundation. So, what does that really mean? That sentence you just read probably didn’t move, touch or inspire you very much. And yet, if you are willing to indulge us just a moment… we’d like to share the story of […]
