Let’s take a month to consider

Praise the bridge that carried you over. 

The year I graduated from high school, I had to give a speech in front of my church family. There was no direction given — I guess something higher than me was supposed to help me choose a topic.

As speech day neared, I still didn’t have a topic. My mother sat me down and — rather harshly, I thought — told me, “You know what your problem is? You think you’ve done all this yourself. You haven’t. Think about that.”

Mom was right. When I finally realized that my speech could be one of thanks, it became a lot easier to write. Gratitude is hard to express sometimes. A shove in the right direction is incredibly helpful, and I hope a month of gratitude prompts — in November, no less — can help. We complain a whole lot. Can we take November 2013 to reframe our work?

For each day in November, I plan on posting a prompt at http://highedthx.tumblr.com for a photo, a poem, a post of some sort. I’ll tweet the prompts from @highedthx as well, and you can tweet your response or email me or post the response here.

Please tag your posts #highedTHX.