Released March 2025, in two versions with subtitles “A Year of Gratitude” and “A Gratitude Journal.” The first is the slim one, with brief daily entries; the second is the thick one, which offers space on each page for the reader’s own entries.
Here is the back-jacket text:
Is it possible to train ourselves to see the good in our lives without being blind to often-harsh realities? This journal, Brown Paper Packages, represents one person’s attempt to notice on a daily basis the unfailing light shrouded but not snuffed by every moment of anxiety, pain, frustration, anger, self-pity, or apathy.
Beginning at the start of a U.S. election year, it tenderly navigates twelve months of global tumult and uncertainty during a time that feels alarming to many if not most of us.
With dogged determination, Reeder celebrates the mundane to the stupendous events and gifts that grace our course through life. May these reflections inspire others to keep finding the light.
Betsy Reeder, Writer 