Again, I'm thankful that I'm healthy. I have clean water and food; I'm without disease; and have a nice place to live. There's no gunfire around my home other than Mr. Minsey trying to shoot muskrats. I have family and friends, and they'll help me celebrate a wedding in May.
Gig has died, but I'm thankful he was with me for so long. I have a car, a cell phone, and other luxuries when so many throughout the world think of bread and clear water in a one-room shack as high-living. I'm receiving an education (and one in which I can choose what to learn). I live in a rural area; we have heat and air conditioning; and there are hospitals that actually have up-to-date equipment and real, live doctors.
I say these things every now and then to remind myself that I have a good life, especially when compared to most of the world.
Here are some other things for which I'm thankful:
- Green beans
- Lindsey
- Family cookouts and get-togethers in which Papa is still able to participate
- There are people who hold faith and practice religion with intelligence and wisdom
- Those who aren't religious but demonstrate tolerance and understanding because they share the wisdom common to all humanity
- Fall, summer, spring, winter
- Sarcasm, subtlety, and understatement—some of our greatest tools
- The semester is winding down
- Harmonicas, banjos, and bagpipes
- Barnes & Noble gift cards and sales at Borders
- Rain and wind (but also bright, blue Saturdays)
- Bush can't serve another term
- Lindsey
- In-jokes, secrets, and times alone
- Dirt roads and rusty mailboxes
- Beach trips with family
- The selfish merchants and gluttonous colonial leaders who severed us from England.
- Cracker Barrel
- Cameras
- New family and friends given to me by Lindsey
- Lindsey
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