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Articles and publications tagged Gratitude across the Atmosphere.

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brennan.day
brennan.dayOct 28, 2026
Thank You For Today
The holy clean and the October urge to shake the dust and start again. I have gratitude for this absurd life. On Marcus Aurelius leaving his warm blankets and existence as a freefall kicked off a precipice. On thanking the bus driver, coral growth, the Moon's tides stretching the day, and Alberta Time holding the clocks still for the first fall in fifty years. On the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address spoken before anything else is done. On maarsii and kinanâskomitin, the Cree verb that won't let you give thanks without saying to whom. What are you grateful for?
personal essaygratitude
Arokk.NET
Arokk.NETOct 26, 2026
Earworm of the Moment
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appreciationcontrition
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 19, 2026
I think I just clocked the true nature …
I think I just clocked the true nature of gratitude. The thought came to me on the drive into Leamington Spa while I was listening to Conversations with God. I was thinking about prayer, and about the strange contradiction buried inside supplication. When I pray for something, there is often another sentence hiding beneath the...
FaithField Notes
brennan.day
brennan.dayJul 7, 2026
There Are People Who Would Give Anything For Your Ability to Read and Write
In our current year, there is a global literacy crisis. As a result, there's a privilege in being able to read and write. Notes on Frederick Douglass, the problems you don't think about, and why the ability to write is something to be grateful for and use rather than take for granted.
personal essayliteracy
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 12, 2026
30: Finding My Footing
My annual birthday essay on turning thirty: examining the cross-cultural agreement—from Confucius to the Hebrew Bible to Zoroaster—that thirty is when formation ends and function begins. My dark year of depression which turned out to be preparation rather than delay, and on writing 200,000 words since, which turned out to be the same thing.
personal essaywriting
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 10, 2026
Earning My Keep
On the poets who found different terrors inside the phrase 'earn my keep'—Jeong Ho-Seung, Brecht, Heather McHugh, Kim Hyesoon—and the theological dispute over whether grace can be deserved, turning thirty in borrowed time, and the nuthatches outside who do not know the feeder was set out for them.
personal essaypoetry
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 6, 2026
That's Home. That's us.
We have the first human photograph of Earth from space in 54 years, and I can't help but meditate on what it means to be human on a fragile planet in 2026.
personal essaySocial Commentary
brennan.day
brennan.dayMar 31, 2026
The Blogging Übermensch, or, Being the Luckiest Person on Earth
Exploring constitutive moral luck through Nagel and Williams alongside Nietzsche's Übermensch and amor fati, I reflect on the recursive gratitude I feel for who I constitutively am—and argue that blogging is a philosophical practice of self-overcoming: a daily, recursive Yes to existence.
PhilosophyPersonal Essay
brennan.day
brennan.dayFeb 25, 2026
12,000 Generations: On Deep Time, Grief, and the Body
Turning thirty during a breakup while the world unravels. Meditating on the 12,000 generations of homo sapiens that came before us, and what it means to be embodied in this particular moment of deep time.
personal essayphilosophy
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheoryJan 1, 2000
Wonder, Creativity and Knowledge
wondercreativity

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