What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving?
I’ll get the ball rolling with a few of the things on my list:.
First….and always……I’m grateful for my brilliant, wonderful, soulful son—who turned 22 yesterday! (And I’m also grateful for the terrific friends and family with with whom I am blessed.)
I’m grateful that we live in a country where freedom of expression is protected, in all its messy glory.
And, speaking of expression, I’m grateful for the smart, articulate commenters—right, left and middle— who are willing to bring their ideas and their verbal boxing gloves to this blog.
I’m grateful for the sprawling, crazy, ugly, gorgeous place that is Los Angeles—-hideous traffic and all. If you’re interested in finding solutions to the nation’s hoariest social problems, this Pacific Rim city of angels is the place to be. You name the problem, we got it. But, hey, therein lies the challenge.
I’m grateful for bluegrass, zydeco and blues—and for the fact that I recently managed to snag a couple of pretty damn decent Springsteen tickets for a So Cal night in the upcoming spring leg of his tour.
I’m grateful to Alex— one of the former gang members I’ve watched grow up, a guy who’s been through hell and back a couple of times—who called me yesterday just to tell me how well he’s doing, because he knew I’d want to know.
I’m grateful for the coyotes I hear singing outside my house tonight. (And I’d be doubly grateful if they would continue to avoid eating my cat.)
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Okay, now it’s your turn. (And, while you’re thinking about it, something to listen to….in the collective spirit of Thanksgiving)
(And this too, at the suggestion of commenter Reg)
UPDATE: I JUST NOTICED THAT THE LA TIMES HAS PUT UP A LIST OF FOURTEEN THINGS AND/OR PEOPLE THEY SAID MADE THEM THANKFUL.
It’s a rather cool, eclectic set of choices that features among those thanked: the LAPD, the firefighters, Fr. Greg Boyle, Steve Barr, Sunila Abeysekera and Hollman Morris—two men who fight injustice at great potential cost in Sri Lanka and Columbia—and Chuck Hagel.
Good list, guys!
PS: Light blogging through the weekend—although I will be posting short items of interest, so check back.
I’m grateful for my wife, one of the most generous, kindhearted persons on the face of the earth. I’m grateful for the fact that after nearly 51 years my thirst for knowledge remains unslaked.
Like Randy, I’m very thankful for a partner in life who is kind and generous – who laughs with me but also lets me know when I’m being an asshole – but I can’t let this day pass without expressing thanks for my new grandson. His picture is the last one in a series of shots taken on our way to visit him for the first time, here:
http://www.beautifulhorizons.net/weblog/2007/10/on-the-road.html
Since I’m being shamelss, I’ll also share links to two Thanksgiving posts at Beautiful Horizons:
http://www.beautifulhorizons.net/weblog/2007/11/serenity-courag.html
http://www.beautifulhorizons.net/weblog/2007/11/thanksgiving.html
The list is too long to itemize, but I’ll highlight one very special thing I’m thankful for:
Celeste Freemon and her blog Witness LA
Have a great holiday, All!
Did reg enjoy his crow yesterday?
Woody…all I linked to was the Public Affairs website that had McClellan’s statement. Nothing more and nothing less. In other words, you’re grasping at straws here. Enjoy the leftover crow sandwiches and crow soup this week.
Ah, it’s what you thought it meant and what others thought it meant and what you wanted others to think it meant rather than what it really meant. No straws there–and, no crow.
Nice gobbledlygook but what it clearly means is that at the highest levels this administration fed us lies. No more and no less. McClellan says it in black and white, however much he wants to parse and pull back.
reg, as much as Plame and Wilson love the celebrity of this, they really weren’t very important to the administration and not important enough to intentionally “expose” someone who wasn’t even a covert agent. If others in the administration lied, then Fitzgerald had plenty of time and money to expose that. It was Wilson who started making a big deal out of his trip. If he hadn’t kept opening his mouth for purely political purposes, this issue and her identity would have gone unnoticed. I think that I would be more worried about his releasing our super-sensitive, top-secret CIA information to The NY Times in an op-ed. You’re really desperate. Why don’t you spend your time at Cooper’s, where you can have a love-fest with other left-wingers?
People like you who tried to sell Bush, this disastrous war and an unbelievably mendacious and incompetent administration with a barrage of unbelieveably wrong-headed opnioin should just shut up for a few years and think things over. Of course, you’ll keep prattling on…boring the world with your stupidity. Nobody’s listening anymore.
I’m grateful that Reg is in Oakland and Woody is on Atlanta. The world is not ready for their face-to-face.
I’m also grateful that my coloscopy came out OK (Don’t ask!)
Don’t tell ;-0
Seriously though, that’s good news, Richard.
rlc, I recently had to have a cystoscopy to have a kidney stone removed. Talk about fun. The only good thing is that I didn’t have to drink that motor oil solution before hand. In the OR, there was a sign that said, “What happens in Cysto stays in Cysto.” Anyway, I’m glad that your results came out okay.
Excellent news, Richard. I’m very glad the test came out okay.
And funny sign, Woody!
I had my first one in August. I don’t think I will eat lime jello again until my next one – in five years.
The doctor said to me that the prep part was the worst part. I don’t dispute that.
Kidney stones are horrid, from what I’ve heard, Woody. Glad to hear that it worked out okay for you.
I thank you. My Colon thanks you.
Well, to tie the discussion of colons and Thanksgiving together, here is one gross and funny Thanksgiving e-card.