A Word From The Coordinator...
“Tse ku ye tsie?” “What is this?”
This was the nickname given to me when I was sent to live with my paternal grandmother, in an Ewe village, at an age when children start to ask questions. Then, the questions were easily answered: chair, bed, sponge, candle.
Today, I want to know what gratitude feels like. Is it like anger? A tight, strangled feeling in the throat. Is it like happiness? An airy, floaty, not entirely present feeling? Is it like achievement - a pulsating halo of warmth?
For now, gratitude feels like being intellectually pleased that the opposite of what I’m thankful for is absent. I’m grateful for my car because I can imagine the difficulty of living where I do, without a car.
Based on the recommendation that performing small acts of generosity - such as giving someone your place in line, helping someone pay for a purchase, or bringing food to a neighbor - increases one’s ability to feel grateful, Cuppedhands.net is one attempt to experience the actual emotion of gratitude and provide a venue for others to do the same by giving from the proceeds of their hands or by buying to benefit another.
A visit from writer Melissa Tandiwe Myambo coincided with the arrival of long-awaited good news in her life. Melissa said she wanted to volunteer the gift of time or give something out of gratitude for the gift of the good news. There the kernel of cuppedhands.net presented itself.
The process is this – you provide something to cuppedhands.net to host and you become an angle in an infinite triangle of giving. The proceeds of the sale of the thing you provide are shared into thirds. You get one third, cuppedhands.net receives one third and the final, most vital third is shared with up to three charities. Please kindly consider giving directly to the charities, this is also a means of highlighting the important work that they do.
I am grateful to Ms. Myambo for donating her work to kick off this campaign. You are invited to join me either in sharing the fruit of your labor with others through this site or purchasing an item that will benefit the work of someone or something you support, all with the intent of growing in gratitude.
Gratefully yours,
~J. Abra Degbor, Coordinator - Cuppedhands.net
This was the nickname given to me when I was sent to live with my paternal grandmother, in an Ewe village, at an age when children start to ask questions. Then, the questions were easily answered: chair, bed, sponge, candle.
Today, I want to know what gratitude feels like. Is it like anger? A tight, strangled feeling in the throat. Is it like happiness? An airy, floaty, not entirely present feeling? Is it like achievement - a pulsating halo of warmth?
For now, gratitude feels like being intellectually pleased that the opposite of what I’m thankful for is absent. I’m grateful for my car because I can imagine the difficulty of living where I do, without a car.
Based on the recommendation that performing small acts of generosity - such as giving someone your place in line, helping someone pay for a purchase, or bringing food to a neighbor - increases one’s ability to feel grateful, Cuppedhands.net is one attempt to experience the actual emotion of gratitude and provide a venue for others to do the same by giving from the proceeds of their hands or by buying to benefit another.
A visit from writer Melissa Tandiwe Myambo coincided with the arrival of long-awaited good news in her life. Melissa said she wanted to volunteer the gift of time or give something out of gratitude for the gift of the good news. There the kernel of cuppedhands.net presented itself.
The process is this – you provide something to cuppedhands.net to host and you become an angle in an infinite triangle of giving. The proceeds of the sale of the thing you provide are shared into thirds. You get one third, cuppedhands.net receives one third and the final, most vital third is shared with up to three charities. Please kindly consider giving directly to the charities, this is also a means of highlighting the important work that they do.
I am grateful to Ms. Myambo for donating her work to kick off this campaign. You are invited to join me either in sharing the fruit of your labor with others through this site or purchasing an item that will benefit the work of someone or something you support, all with the intent of growing in gratitude.
Gratefully yours,
~J. Abra Degbor, Coordinator - Cuppedhands.net