#iamgratefulfor

• My wife, Vicki, better every year.
• Our kids, growing up and maturing in spite of us.
• Family dinners, today and every Sunday.
• Jesus, loving and giving and bringing Life abundantly.
• Stretchy pants.
• New friends, making connections all over geography and the internet.
• Old friends, reconnecting all over geography and the internet.
• New fun exciting scary growth-inducing employment.
• Getting to travel these past few years to FL, to PA, to WA, to CA, to PR, to VA.
• Not having to travel nearly as much this past year.
• Twitter, for the semi-coherent “conversations” with followers and followings.
• Connecting with folks here in @ColumbiaSC where everyone’s #famouslyhot.
• Hashtags.
• Facebook, where everyone’s growing old and loving it instead of hiding it so much.
• Technology – no, really – that changes the dynamic of “relationship”, in a good way.
• Not having to sit at my laptop every night after work to keep working.
• Having time to read, to write, to read over what I write and edit a bit.
• That peanut butter pie.
• Both of you reading.

Thanks – and happy thanksgiving to all.

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