What are you thankful for today?

"well tonight thank god it's them, insteaaaaaad of YOUUUUUUUU" (sorry)

I don't want to jinx it, but my wife has been feeling really good lately. Not just one of those 3-day serotonin benders, but several weeks of sustained feeling good, something she hasn't experienced in a decade. It's been nice to have her back...thanks, universe.

Very cool. :-)

I am rather thankful for a president with a brain.

I was going to write a long rather pretentious and rose-tinted post about how every day in the place where I live I see people who have fled persecution or war in their home country and who are muddling together in a small, rather unfashionable, city in a rather cold part of Western europe, mostly without hindrance. I was reminded of this by my son whose schoolmate is a child from the DRC and whose parents are dead and "didn't I think it was amazing that he has ended up here?"

But then I thought that makes me sound unbearably pompous and like I'm running for office and really what I'm thankful for is that I live somewhere where I can get a top class meal, buy a map of Slovakia, and get a proper Italian hot chocolate all in my lunch break. And I can get all this by walking down a path first walked along by the Romans and still traffic free after 2000 years, and unchanged for the last 130.

You see I still can't stop being pompous though.

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Family
Beer
Ilx

bus service just increased frequency and the number of buses. So hopefully it'll stay taht way.
the taste of coconut milk.
Copies of tomorrow night's Culture Night programme finally being around.
Tasty Freshii burrito.
the chance to try chocolate chip and honeycomb sausages.
Being indoors for Storm Ali. & getting to watch the destruction in aftermath. THough sad to see that big tree go.

Great answer

have you tried coconut/almond milk? been using that in my breakfast peanut butter banana smoothies.

I'm thinking more of the 99% stuff made from water pressed through the white of teh cocnut. Only started using it as an ingredient a few months ago.
Do love the liquid I drain out of the coconuts t5hemselves. & have been eating quite a bit of the freshish white both as itself and finely chopped as an ingredient in the stir fry curry whatever I've been making variations of.

Franz Ferdinand

that we made it out of the early oughts

Today I am on a brief vacation at the Oregon coast and the sun is shining. I am deeply thankful for this. Now I need to put some lunch in a pack and go for a long walk along the beach.