Thanksgiving 2022
I give thanks for:
My friends and family
Having played in the Danner family Thanksgiving football games for so many years (picture here is from 1976)
A reunion with my book designer
Fitness of mind and body
Squirrels, dogs and beavers
Bebop jazz
Thrift stores
A new job at a tree nursery
Leaves
Loyalty
Trees
Birds
People who converse without cliches
Oregon’s socialist ocean beaches
Kindness
The awesome underpaid caregivers helping my dad
Corduroy
Driftwood fort Tarot readings
The Old Crow Book Club
Sane politicians
Books, especially those by Jim Harrison
Good journalism (because it so hard and time consuming to execute)
People who seek deeper truth about other people
People who follow through
Soups
Simplicity
Posters on power poles advertising events and looking for lost pets
People in government who govern well
People engaged with others around them instead of their phones