{"id":27,"date":"2010-12-22T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/2010\/12\/the-sweetness-of-acknowledgmentclickthanksend.html"},"modified":"2010-12-22T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:49:41","slug":"the-sweetness-of-acknowledgmentclickthanksend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2010\/12\/the-sweetness-of-acknowledgmentclickthanksend.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sweetness of Acknowledgment\/Click\/Thank\/Send"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The postal statistics are in &#8211; tens of thousands LESS actual seasonal greetings are being sent through the postal system this year.&nbsp; Speculation abounds &#8211; more electronic greetings, overloaded schedules leading to the choice for no greetings at all, simplifying the &#8220;list&#8221;&#8230;what ever the reason&#8230;I have an idea for you which I am modeling below.<\/p>\n<p>The sweetness of acknowledgment is especially easy in our electronic age.&nbsp; Particularly for folks whose phones boast a camera and the capacity to send photos almost instantly.<\/p>\n<p>If you are inclined, like many, to experience pangs of guilt when you receive a card from someone that you did not reciprocally send&#8230;try this!<\/p>\n<p>Set aside guilt and experience the sweetness of acknowledgment.&nbsp; Place the card in a place, as I did, with a mirror and space for the greeting.&nbsp; Click &#8211; snap a&nbsp; photo.&nbsp; And send it along electronically saying something like, &#8220;You brought a smile to my face today when I received your greeting.&nbsp; Thank you so much for thinking of me.&#8221;&nbsp; Then hit send.&nbsp; In fact, if you want to copy those words right out of this post &#8211; please do!&nbsp; A gulit-free response to a cultural conundrum.&nbsp;&nbsp; It only takes a few moments and will go a long way to spread and return some&nbsp; joy in a busy holiday.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many opportunities for you to turn that groan of &#8220;oh-no!&#8221; and sense of under performance into a daily joy in this season.&nbsp; This is one of them.&nbsp; Try it and let me know how it feels.&nbsp; <br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"holiday thanks.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/77\/import\/holiday%20thanks.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px\" height=\"800\" width=\"600\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The postal statistics are in &#8211; tens of thousands LESS actual seasonal greetings are being sent through the postal system this year.&nbsp; Speculation abounds &#8211; more electronic greetings, overloaded schedules leading to the choice for no greetings at all, simplifying the &#8220;list&#8221;&#8230;what ever the reason&#8230;I have an idea for you which I am modeling below.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-joys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sweetness of Acknowledgment\/Click\/Thank\/Send - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2010\/12\/the-sweetness-of-acknowledgmentclickthanksend.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sweetness of Acknowledgment\/Click\/Thank\/Send - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The postal statistics are in &#8211; 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