Gratitude Brings Joy - The Monday Morning Memo

Joy begins in gratitude.
Without gratitude you cain’t find it.
Joy begins in gratitude.
Without gratitude you cain’t find it.
Joy begins in gratitude.
Without gratitude you cain’t find it.
Joy begins in gratitude.
Without gratitude you cain’t find it.

To celebrate the ordinary
is the key to gratitude.
Celebrate the ordinary
and you’ll feel gratitude.

Celebrate the ordinary
and you’ll feel gratitude.
Celebrate the ordinary
if you want to feel gratitude.

Celebration of the ordinary
will give you gratitude.
Celebration of the ordinary
will give you gratitude.

Celebration of the ordinary
is the key to gratitude.
Gratitude will give you joy.
Gratitude will give you joy.
Gratitude will give you joy!

Do you want to have joy?
I said, “Do you want to have joy?”
Have a heart full of gratitude.

Do you want to have joy!
Have a heart full of gratitude.

Do you want to have Joy! Joy! Joy!
Have a heart full of gratitude.

Gratitude.
Gratitude.
Gratitude.

If you want to have gratitude,
Celebrate the ordinary.
If you want to have gratitude,
Celebrate the ordinary.

Gratitude!
Ordinary.

Gratitude!
Ordinary.

If you want to have gratitude,
Learn to Celebrate the ordinary.

I celebrate my wife, Pennie.
I celebrate her love.

I celebrate my sons and grandsons,
I celebrate their love.
I celebrate my granddaughter!
And the wives of my sons.

I celebrate everybody.
I celebrate everybody.

You got some everybodies
of your own.
You got some every bodies
of your own.
Celebrate your every bodies.
Celebrate your every bodies.

I celebrate my truck.
I like it because it’s plain.
I celebrate my truck.
Every day.
Every day.
Every day.

I like it because it’s white.
Plain trucks are what I like.
I like it because it’s white.
Plain trucks are what I like.

What do you like?
Celebrate it.
What do you like?
Celebrate it.
What do you like?
Celebrate it.

Celebrate the ordinary.
And you’ll feel gratitude.
Celebrate the ordinary.
And you’ll feel gratitude.

Celebrate the ordinary.
And you’ll feel gratitude.

Gratitude brings joy!
Ain’t no other way to get it.
Gratitude brings joy!
Ain’t no other way to get it.
Gratitude brings joy!
Ain’t no other way to get it.

You gotta cultivate gratitude.
Cultivate gratitude.
Learn to be thankful,
For all the little things.
Learn to be thankful,
For all the little things.

Gratitude brings Joy.
Ain’t no other way to get it.
Gratitude brings joy!
Ain’t no other way to get it.
Gratitude brings joy!
Ain’t no other way to get it.

Gratitude is an attitude.
Gratitude is an attitude.
Gratitude!
Is an attitude.

Attitude.
Gratitude.

Attitude.
Attitude.
Attitude.

Gratitude.

© Roy H. Williams, Tiny Tribe Music

“A film that immediately comes to mind is François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player, which I watched alone at a private screening in 1963, having gone to review the movie for the Seattle Times. After leaving the theater, I did not — could not — speak for three whole days. The unexplained silence caused my baffled wife to flee, moving into a motel until I recovered my voice. Susan never understood and I’m unsure if I can explain it adequately even now, except to say that Truffaut’s daring artistry validated unexpectedly yet completely my nascent literary vision, giving me the confidence to bring it, in time, to fruition.

In one amazing scene, a young woman about whom Truffaut has led us to care deeply, is shot by gangsters who are hiding out on a French farm. It’s winter, and when the dear girl topples, her body goes gliding slowly, gracefully, on and on, down a long slope covered with snow. Our hearts are breaking over the girl’s death, yet the long, snowy scene (shot in black and white) is, from an aesthetic perspective, heartbreakingly beautiful. The audience is pulled in two directions at once…”

- Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie, p. 67