7 days of living gratefully

When I think of the word “gratitude” the first thing that springs to mind is Oprah Winfrey. As a young teenager, I used to watch the television maven’s eponymous chat show almost daily after school – a continuing of my education, you might say.
Most of the time there were gritty real-life stories, celebrity interviews, book clubs and gigantic prize giveaway segments to keep me enthralled, but an abiding theme of The Oprah Show’s latter years was the aforementioned G word – something that largely went over my little pubescent head.