Some new friends in Winnipeg invited us over for an American Thanksgiving this evening. It was very informal and very delightful. Like us, he is American and she is Canadian. Like us, they have a small child and feel blessed to have a warm, small house in a small city. And like us, they are kind of economic refugees (my new term of phrase, coined via my wife) from the U.S. Both academics, they found it difficult to raise a kid in San Diego and get the most of their lives with their salaries and their livelihoods.
Anyway, I had two Thanksgivings this year and so, here are the things I’m doubly thankful for (in no particular order):
- Orange Juice
- Dark Blue
- Sincere Simplicity
- Sheer Strength
- Bad Television
- Good Movies
- Fine Chocolate
- Small Books
- Warm Homes
- Great Friends
- Family Commotion
- Tough Tears
- Canadian Music
- Two Felines
- Adobe Photoshop
- Utter Silliness
- Wood Fires
- Smelly Poopy
- Large Paintings
- 2000 Saabs
- Usable Websites
- Handwritten Letters
- New York
- Apple Computer
- Tyra Banks
- Savings Accounts
- Independent Entrepreneurship
- Cold Coke
- Smooth Stones
- Sweet Words