Well, the clock has rolled over into Thursday. I was supposed to work today, but due to covering for someone who called in sick on Tuesday, I got Wednesday and Thursday off.
Thanks are very much in order for so much in my life. I am grateful, first and formost to be able to share my life with Jean. After over 23 years together, she is the center of my very happy life. Before Jean I was a solitary I - - but those lonely days are but a faint memory of an almost forgotten time that preceded years comfortably spent as an us.
I am thankful for my son Kirk. It is privelege to know him. His ongoing presence in my life expands my horizons in delightful and unexpected ways. It has the added bonus that his computer powers and abilities (far beyond those of mortal men) allow me to enjoy a digital life well in excess of that enabled by my meager capacities.
I am thankful for so many things which I may happily take for granted yet others might not enjoy. I am healthy and have always been so. I live in country which, for all its shortcomings is free and stable and richly blessed. I live in a time where we are surrounded by phenomena which not so long ago would have been thought miracles, if they could have been thought of at all. The challenges of this time are built on a foundation of so much allready accomplished, so many people fed and clothed and cured and freer than at other times, that we may hope for even better days ahead.
Posted by apopheniac at November 27, 2003 01:03 AM