Thankfulness Accomplished

Back from the very traditional food-fest at my parents' house, where as in years past our heroine makes herself sick on carmelized butter/turkey drippings licked from the roasting pan and gravy-covered carbs. Ooog.

Though somewhat distracted by the migraine that has been stalking me all evening, I feel obliged to post some gratitude reminders now, before I go off to even yet more distraction all weekend long:

I am thankful that I have a close-knit , loving and supportive family, and that I get to see many of them often.
I am thankful that I am (relatively) healthy and able.
I am thankful that I have so many connections to so many interesting and wonderful people, and get to participate in big or small ways in their lives.
I am thankful that I have the capacity and the temperament for risk-taking.
I am thankful that I have the itch and the ability (if not always the time) to create stories and art, and occasionally some small audience with which to share them.
I am thankful for all the new business opening up before us so easily.
I am thankful for good food, a safe neighborhood, and kind interactions with strangers.
I am thankful for the glorious complexity that is this messy, tangly, achingly precious world around me that I find endlessly interesting.

I will not take these things for granted.