Ray Wiley Hubbard is a Texas singer who was popular in the 1970s and a few years ago had a small revival. One of his later releases is “Mother Blues,” which concerns events in a Dallas nightclub of that name. Overall the song is only modestly entertaining, but the last lines stuck with me. They go like this:
And the days that I keep my gratitude
Higher than my expectations
Well, I have really good days
I tend not to read much significance into song lyrics. However, when they memorably summarize a concept supported by objective and reliable evidence, song lyrics can be useful. And something about the way Ray Wiley put this worked for me. Keeping my gratitude just a hair higher than my expectations was something I could visualize. It was something I thought I could do.
Since then, when I feel down I’ll sometimes envision…
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