OK, everybody does a blog post this time of year on what they are thankful for and why they are thankful. Generally this is for big stuff: family, children, significant other, world peace, surviving a serious illness, etc., etc. I too am thankful for all the big things. I have been exceedingly blessed with my family, children, wife, job, health to the extent that it almost goes without saying. I truly hope I never get what I deserve because that would be a serious reduction in what I have now. So, the big stuff is taken care of and here is some small stuff for which I am thankful (not an exhaustive list and in no particular order):
- warm weather-being able to exercise outdoors in shorts and tee shirt in January
- hitting a series of green lights when I need to be somewhere soon
- the laughter of small children at play
- the enthusiasm of dogs for almost anything
- sunlight shining through trees onto water
- being able to vote, even though I rarely vote for the winning candidate
- the sincere smiles of strangers
- association with younger people
- learning something new
- being pleasantly surprised by the quality of a restaurant meal
- elevators and escalators
- frozen Margaritas (with salt) and queso
- the easily discernable but not overpowering fragrance of a women wearing good cologne
- a book, television show or movie that is enertaining, well done and aimed at someone with an IQ in excess of a house plant
- baseball (any level), viewed in person on a soft summer night
- the smell of rain on a summer day
- a full night's sleep
- a shaded country road in the summer
- easy open containers that actually do open easily
- things that work as they are supposed to for a long time
- people that do the same
- the feel of my favorite shirt
- the sound of the exhaust of a really nice, powerful car
- e-mail and the internets
- being able to express myself in this blog without fear of anybody reading it (except possibly the NSA).
So thanks for these things, big and small. Thanks a lot!
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