By Clare Herriot
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My recent trip to Ethiopia allowed me to spend quality time with my mother. Along with other life issues, we talked a lot about my late father, who passed away when I was a child.
Girma's Christmas Message reflects on 2020 from a perspective of gratitude.
The only monument in the world built in the shape of a bug, to honour a bug is located in Fort Rucker, Alabama. In 1915 the Mexican boll weevil invaded Southeast Alabama and destroyed 60% of the cotton crop.
It is June 2020. It is yet another time to be thankful to the Windrush Generation for having stayed on to help change Britain in spite of everything they went through. Indeed, it has been 72 years since the SS Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and docked at the port of Tilbury, just outside London, bringing 492 Caribbean passengers to live and work in Britain.
The mission of the Gratitude Initiative is to encourage and promote a ‘gratitude culture’ in Britain, (i.e. a culture where we practise and express gratitude even as we seek and strive for social and personal development and growth) in our personal as well as our communal lives. For this reason, we see gratitude as a vehicle towards both a fulfilled self and a harmonious society.
