In this season of giving thanks and expressing gratitude, there is much I am thankful for.
I am thankful for you, the readers of this blog, and thankful for all my readers in any medium. To have something you've written read by others is a great honor.
I'm thankful for the expulsion from the presidency of my country a cloven-footed, grotesquely evil man.
I'm thankful for my many friendships and deep relationships, which sustain me and give my life profound meaning.
I'm thankful for teaching, which I fell into by dumb luck at 24. Teaching defines me and gives my life purpose, and I am fortunate beyond words that I love it as much now as I did upon discovering it.
I am thankful to be able to write— it gives me an absorbing craft and a way to be in the world.