It's nearly Rosh Hashanah, the time of year when I ought to be doing a spiritual accounting of my past year, and so I'll list that I'm grateful for my:
- Pat, for making me laugh and making delicious meals, and more
- Mother's mostly good health and total lucidity at 82
- Two (and only) older sisters, who are menschen (in the Yiddish sense of the word, i.e., humane beings/good people)
- Sisters' relative health
- Sense of humor
- YMHA swimming pool, with its good hours and blue-on-blue striped lanes
- Radio-access to top pop-music
- Funny and kind brothers-in-law
- Sweet, and appealing, and talented niece and nephews
- Pat's mother's health and love
- Pat's nice brother, who calls the plays with her by phone throughout football season
- Two cat-sisters, with their green eyes and brown, striped fur, and sometimes-affectionate ways
- Apparently restored inner-ear-bone health (kaynahoreh/no evil eye), according to Dr. Brookler at my checkup last week
- Friends, who recommended my seeing Dr. Brookler
- Friends, who I don't see enough of, but who make me happy whenever I do get to see them
- Hundreds of contacts on various social networking sites, who make me feel part of a community
- Flowering plant that's sitting on our deck; it was near death and Pat brought it back to life, and now, it has a profusion of big, purple flowers
- Spacious, art- and book-filled home
- Property full of flowers and trees and a bright green lawn maintained by my resident "lawnologist," Pat
- Freedom to experiment and be creative at work
- Being stateside for the High Holidays, rather than on our own in India, a country, where Jews are not really on the radar...like we were last year
- Having contributed to the launch of an Indian chapter of our GLBT employee network group
- Big-screen TV, which enables us to feel like we're at the theater
- Opportunity to pursue a Masters degree part-time while working full-time -- to learn continually, and now at the graduate school level.
