I Am Thankful

This is a revision of a blog I posted several years ago.  Happy Thanksgiving to you all.  

1. I am thankful I don’t have to line up in size places.

2. Or take SATs.

3. I am thankful that the farmers market is a block away.

4. And that I can walk there, to the theater and to my favorite restaurants and bookstores.

5. Alone or with my husband, whom I am thankful for every day.

6. I am thankful I can walk.

7. I am thankful for work that engages and excites me.

8. I am thankful for the loyalty and support of wonderful friends.

9. Both longtime and new ones..

10.  I am thankful for people who show up.

11.  I am thankful for kindness.

12. And forgiveness.

13. I am thankful I'm getting better with age about establishing my priorities.

14.  I am thankful no one sees me count by 2 when I do push-ups.

15. I am thankful for lox with or without a bagel.

16. I am thankful my neighborhood grocer has a month-long sale on brie.

17. I am thankful for meditation.

18. And a good-enough haircutter.

19. And competent doctors.

20. And, for the moment, I am in good health.

21. I am thankful that the members of my family are in good health.

22. I am thankful I am not penniless.

23. Or humorless.

24. I am thankful every day for my precious, sweet, caring, family-my greatest wealth--beautiful inside and out.

                                                                  The End