The inside cover of my personal January Journal features a thank you card from my friend, Gina.  It’s there to remind me how important it is to articulate thanks.  Beginning with an internal attitude of thankfulness to verbalizing gratitude for courtesy, kindness, gift and actions.  I have sent a quantity of “thank you” expressions out today.  In light of the harshness of the news in the world, I see extending colorful thanks, in a variety of ways, as my own version of counter-balance.  It is a simple gesture that fills me with some kind of hope.