Our story unfolds day by day. The book that is our life is written in, added to, and edited a day at a time.

The way in which we begin and end each day can impact the story that we tell. The mindset that we choose as we open our eyes in the morning, and as we drift off to sleep at night, informs the words that will show up on our pages. Like bookends, our state of mind at each end of the day props up the story we hope to tell through the life we live.

These days the bookends I am choosing to use to hold my living narrative together and in place are made of two small daily rituals of gratitude. A simple practice of giving voice about that for which I am grateful. Even when, and perhaps especially when, the going gets rough, bookends of gratitude are helping me to write with my life the tale I hope to share with the world.