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Happy Post - boring as hell, probably *g*
So, I'm reading lj and see that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raqs has posted a list of things that she's thankful for. That's a lovely idea :-) And it'll make a nice change from ranting, so...
I'm grateful for my immediate family. They drive me insane and keep me sane in equal measure, sometimes both at the same time. I like that :-) Most of the time I like that :-)
I'm grateful for my friends. A lot of them are online friends and several of them have translated into face-to-face friends. Ditto on the sanity thing, not so much on the insanity ;-)
Chocolate and red wine. Two of the great material blessings of humanity. And mushrooms. (Why on *earth* did someone, somewhere, suddenly take it into their head to try them? *Not* the most promising of material, I'd've thought. And imagine the fatalities during the trial and error process...)
I'm glad that I live here and now rather than there and then - any 'there' or 'then'. I'm a child of my times, I cheerfully admit it: analgaesia? Yep, I'm in favour of that. Vaccination, sanitation, antibiotics, the aeroplane, mobility, technology - all good. The only downside is that these things are by no means universal. But I have the means and the will to help change that, so I'm grateful for that too, even if the process is frustratingly slow.
Education. The ability to read and write is a marvellous gift - and the idea that these abilities should be universal is a comparatively recent one, let's not forget. Words, read or written, are powerful things.
Sunshine. It always makes everything more tolerable.
There are doubtless many more, but these are the things that spring right to mind. And kinda take the sting out of picking up a parking ticket this morning. Sort of. If I think really hard about them *g*
raqs has posted a list of things that she's thankful for. That's a lovely idea :-) And it'll make a nice change from ranting, so...I'm grateful for my immediate family. They drive me insane and keep me sane in equal measure, sometimes both at the same time. I like that :-) Most of the time I like that :-)
I'm grateful for my friends. A lot of them are online friends and several of them have translated into face-to-face friends. Ditto on the sanity thing, not so much on the insanity ;-)
Chocolate and red wine. Two of the great material blessings of humanity. And mushrooms. (Why on *earth* did someone, somewhere, suddenly take it into their head to try them? *Not* the most promising of material, I'd've thought. And imagine the fatalities during the trial and error process...)
I'm glad that I live here and now rather than there and then - any 'there' or 'then'. I'm a child of my times, I cheerfully admit it: analgaesia? Yep, I'm in favour of that. Vaccination, sanitation, antibiotics, the aeroplane, mobility, technology - all good. The only downside is that these things are by no means universal. But I have the means and the will to help change that, so I'm grateful for that too, even if the process is frustratingly slow.
Education. The ability to read and write is a marvellous gift - and the idea that these abilities should be universal is a comparatively recent one, let's not forget. Words, read or written, are powerful things.
Sunshine. It always makes everything more tolerable.
There are doubtless many more, but these are the things that spring right to mind. And kinda take the sting out of picking up a parking ticket this morning. Sort of. If I think really hard about them *g*