For what am I thankful on this, a purposeful day of Thanksgiving? Why, that would be:
- I am thankful that, despite the hard years of abuse, I am among the living, can still stand erect;
- I am thankful for the rock-solid support and dedicated love of my incredible wife;
- I am thankful my father is still alive, has left the hospital and is back in his nursing home;
- I am thankful that I have a job where they need me more than I need them
- I am thankful that I have a modest cabin that I have completely redesigned by myself;
- I am thankful that I live amidst the natural beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains;
- I am thankful that, when all things were considered and done, I lived the life I chose, plotted my own path, hitched my star to no one else’s, was beholden to no one and yet, in my own small way, became successful in a venue where I originally had no reason to be;
- I am thankful that I had the wondrous opportunity to live my life as a child in the late 50s and early 60s, to have experienced the freedom and naivete that no child can or will enjoy today;
- I am thankful that I was born with all my limbs, with my mind, complete and functional;
- I am thankful that I was born of American parents of The Greatest Generation;
- And I am thankful that I was born in an American hospital on United States soil;
- This nation being, of course, the last and best hope for the entire planet.
God bless you and your family, my dear readers, on this day of thanks.
Thank you for continuing to frequent my blog, for believing in me, for coming back day after day, for being, in truth, My Dearest Readers.
Live long and prosper.
BZ
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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for your blog too.
BZ, to you and the family, all the best, glad your Dad is not in the hospital, I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving, eat too much and gain 10 pounds!!
I am thankful that my fellow bloggers have such intelligence and character. God bless you and Happy Thanksgiving!
JM: wow! Thank you very much!
TF: I’m afraid I can accomplish that.
PCC: happy Thanksgiving to you as well!
BZ
Have a great thanksgiving BZ! Glad your dad is ‘out of the woods’ and not in the hospital.
Have a great Thanksgiving BZ…
Oh and you forgot one:
You are thankful for meeting Bushwack.. go ahead SAY IT!!!!
LMAO
BZ, Happy Thanksgiving!!!
VW
Bushwack: but of course, monsieur!
BZ
Happy Thanksgiving, bz!
Wonderful list, BZ…
I hope you had a marvelous Thanksgiving day!
xxx
I am Thankful for my Liberal Friends, who remind me daily how Blessed I am to be a Conservative!
Unabashedly stolen from biased girl’s blog.
I am sitting here more stuffed than that poor bird was!
I hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving, BZ. We certainly did.
Blessings to you and yours and extra blessings for your Dad!
GREAT post, my mind is too empty (or full from studying) to post anything today so I’m hitting a couple of my favorite sites. All the best to you and your family, your readers are thankful for your dedicated service to the blogosphere! Cheers!