It's That Time of the Year
I'm feeling especially grateful, thank God, that:
- Pat and I are happy as a couple and essentially healthy
- Our mothers are still alive and alert and funny and brilliant
- Pat and I feel devoted to our siblings and apparently, vice versa
- Our nephews and niece are growing up interestingly and express their love for us
- I have a job
- My job is stimulating and enables me to experiment with how adults learn
- I am healthy enough to exercise regularly
- My therapist is good and costs so little thanks to a generous benefit from my employer
- This week is a vacation-week
- I'm doing really well in grad school and still primarily enjoying it
- Our planes were on time and there was not terrible weather for our flights so far
- Phoebe and Toonces, the cats, have become our beloved daughters
- I have brilliant, loving friends whose friendship I enjoy whenever I avail myself of it
- My school-reading is done for the semester and I can read for pleasure solidly from now till January
- I feel free to be myself.
