Who We Are
Over thirty years ago, business leaders founded the North Bay Leadership Council on a simple premise: We can accomplish more by working together. Today, the Council includes 54 leading employers in the North Bay. Our members represent a wide variety of businesses, non-profits and educational institutions, with a workforce in excess of 25,000. As business and civic leaders, our goal is to promote sound public policy, innovation and sustainability to make our region a better place to live and work. For more information: Call 707.283.0028 / E-mail info@northbayleadership.org
Thanksgiving and Liberty
in FeaturedThanksgiving is upon us. Time to think about the importance of giving thanks. And how that virtue relates to other things we prize in our lives. There is a strong connection between the virtue of gratitude and liberty. The one of the qualities of gratitude is freedom. In a post by Luke Holladay, he says, “Genuine gratitude requires free will. Nobody can be coerced into being thankful, and no amount of incentives can manufacture gratitude. Because gratitude is a choice, we also the option to spurn thankfulness and believe we deserve all we have been given.” G.K. Chesterton said it well, “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
Holladay reminds us that Congress proclaimed Thanksgiving to be holiday so it could be “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer … affording us an opportunity to peaceably establish a form of government for our safety and happiness.” Says Holladay, “This Thanksgiving, let’s exercise our freedom by proclaiming gratitude.”