While you're rushing to get the turkey in the oven, or face crowded highways and airports to enjoy someone else's cooking, we welcome Thanksgiving with an episode about gratitude.
Emily Otterman has artfully captured not just the images, but the lineage of gratitude in her photo series aptly titled The Gratitude Collection.
Emily speaks with Rebecca Moore about her journey into artistry, as well as intergenerational gratitude and how we can all 'pass it forward'.
Diana Place and Rebecca join me in a short discussion about the role of gratitude in our lives, and how much more important it's become since 2020, which kicks of our interview. First some notes about our guest.
Emily Otterman is an artist who helps people preserve and celebrate what matters most. She's a firm believer in the power of human connection and kindness.
She’s been creating art all her life and remembers the happiness she felt when she won a drawing contest in first grade. A believer in lifelong learning, she's been honing her skills for decades and doesn't intend to stop until she’s taken her last breath.
Her path includes
· Owning and operating a studio in Ontario Canada,
· Working at a fine art framing company,
· Membership coordinator at Craft Ontario in Toronto
· Executive Director of the Merrimack Chamber of Commerce
· Operating a small bookkeeping business
· Being a partner in her husband’s financial planning business
· Continually being an entrepreneur in her art business