• A country, which for decades embraced slavery, then turns around and elects a black President.
• A government that can experience monumental change without a military coup or bloodshed.
• A culturally rich stew of every type and race and creed of people living together, usually in peace.
• Churches where everybody thinks they're going to heaven without killing others who think another way.
• Schools and colleges and universities by the score, most made affordable to anyone and everyone.
• Grocery stores where affordable food of every type and variety can be found in abundance.
• Light that comes on in the dark at the flip of switch.
• A life lived longer without polio and malaria and plague.
• A roof over your head, a pillow on your bed.
• A refrigerator/freezer that keeps your burgers and your butter and your bread.
• A car or two or three, to get you from here to wherever you want to go.
• Gas under five dollars a gallon.
• Gallons and gallons and gallons of cheap, clean water.
• Friends and family who can come visit without having to stop at any state line.
• Friends and family who live how and where they want to.
• Daughters and sons who love you, despite you.
• Grandchildren who can't wait to journey over the river and through the woods.
• A wife or a husband who sticks it out.
• Every morning, a Sun that comes up, no matter what comes up.
• Another day.
• Any way you want it.

 
Dia de Gracias.
 
Thanksgiving Day.
 
I think the only thing I'm really not grateful for is being so damned spoiled I forget what I ought to be grateful for.
 
Have a wonder-filled Thanksgiving!