This is by no means a comprehensive list as I am in a bit of a hurry but I didn't want to let the day go by without at least a short list.
- I am, of course, grateful for friends and family, it's been a good and a weird day on those fronts.
- I am grateful for this gorgeous, crazy, fun city full of tourists and natives and balloons and pretty leaves and smells and home.
- I am grateful for the organization that allows me to volunteer on this day. An organization which set out to feed homebound AIDS and HIV patients and became so good at that that they were able to expand to homebound patients with other challenges.
- 2007 has had some, er, problems... challenges perhaps? Yeah, I'll keep using that. I am grateful they've been surmountable, they haven't been the kind that kill you or completely break you.
- I am grateful for my job (even though I hate it) and my health insurance (even though I hate having to have it).
- I am grateful for people like Clemo who say nice things about how young I am.
- I am grateful for the generosity of people on Thanksgiving. I have had more invitations than I could possibly accept, in at least 3 states. In just a minute or 2 I'll be having a bite with some friends then going to other friends' place for dessert and vacation photos (Africa). I'll come home and bake some pies and do some cleaning and have a fun open house tomorrow.
- If you are reading this I am grateful for you.
Happy Thanksgiving. Go have another piece of pie.
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"2007 has had some, er, problems... I am grateful they've been surmountable, they haven't been the kind that kill you or completely break you."
ReplyDeleteYeah, true dat! It sounds odd or even hypocritical to be grateful for trouble, but there really are productive problems (or ones you can make productive), while we can only have sheer gratitude to fate for letting us off on the monster ones you can do nothing about.