We’re all thankful for family and friends and good health, but I tend to overlook the little things in my life that make me happy and grateful each and every day. So here’s my list …
• Kleenex
• people who know how to cut my hair
• air travel
• my car starts every time I ask it to
• paper books, digital books, and the people who write them
• Game Night, especially when we play Scattergories
• Guinness
• readily available food in my particular pyramid – fruits/veggies (with a special shout-out to sugar snap peas, red bell peppers, blueberries and Pink Lady apples), salmon, eggs, avocado, bacon, booze and chocolate
• people who buy my books
• people I don’t even know who say nice things about my books
• clean, tasty tap water
• basement storage for a lifetime of Christmas ornaments and other memorabilia (all with a story to tell), hundreds of boxes of photographic slides and a working projector on which to view them, an extra freezer, and wine by the case(s)
• xeriscape that doubles as zeroscape (I’ll concede this may not be what my neighbors are thankful for)
• plumbing, air conditioning, heat and electricity
• Netflix
• Jon Stewart, Eddie Izzard and Ellen deGeneres
• people I actually know who make me laugh
• libraries
• Nyquil
• newspapers
• newspaper advertisers so said newspapers can stay in business
• YouTube
• touring productions of Broadway musicals
• WordPress so I can proclaim to the world my love of goofy stuff …. like YOU!
Happy Thanksgiving!
What’s on your list?