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thank you notes 6/12

i'm thankful that the other day when i was washing dishes, i looked out of the window. i'm thankful that what i was expecting to see when i looked out the...

thank you notes (marco)

I am thankful for regaining my sense of smell and taste after losing it for two years. There was a psychosomatic component that ultimately resulted in a...

thank you notes 6/10

i'm thankful for the season finale of the americans, though i don't have anything articulate to say about it. i'm thankful sometimes to be left mute by awe....

thank you notes (moe)(3)

i'm thankful for going out to a buffet on the other side of town with my colleagues yesterday. i'm thankful there was a lot of laughter and it felt warm and...

thank you notes 6/8

i'm thankful that i am getting better at handling the conversations in which people express sadness (or, even more awkwardly, sadness in the form of mock-...

thank you notes (fsa)(10)

i am yet again thankful for change. i am thankful for how i thought j and i’s relationship would never change but it still does every day, and how more and...

thank you notes 6/7

i'm thankful that i left my resignation letter in my boss's desk chair at the end of the day yesterday, with a note on the envelope asking her to read it and...

thank you notes 6/6

i'm thankful that yesterday morning, i went on the longest bike ride i've ever taken (almost 22 miles). i'm thankful, since i've had to give up going on long...

thank you notes (6/6)(kardashians special edition)

i'm thankful that this week's episode of keeping up with the kardashians, which i just got done watching, made me more uncomfortable and unhappy than any...

thank you notes 6/5

i'm thankful that to celebrate some personal news, on my way home friday night i bought nice sandwich ingredients for us, including expensive ham and roast...

thank you notes (dana)

[ed: i'm thankful for the opportunity to share some recent thank you notes by dana, who posts daily notes on her tumblr, which is wonderful. if you'd like to...

thank you notes 5/3

i'm thankful for qigong, which i have been practicing the past few days and really enjoying. i'm thankful that it gives me a lot of the positive mental and...

thank you notes 6/2

i'm thankful that though there were some crazy thunderstorms yesterday afternoon, they had stopped by the time i had to bike home. i'm thankful that i...

i'm thankful to be writing this on the stationary bike. i'm thankful for my crazy schedule that means that i'm at the gym at 11pm on a monday. i'm thankful...

thank you notes 6/1

i'm thankful that yesterday evening attempting to bake a potato in the microwave tripped a breaker. i'm thankful that i don't usually have to microwave baked...

thank you notes 5/31

i'm thankful for three day weekends that include monday. i'm thankful for all three day weekends, but especially for three day weekends that include monday,...

thank you notes 5/29

i'm thankful for the experience of throwing a ball into the air and catching it. i'm thankful that ever since the first forced exercise of childhood, i've...

thank you notes 5/28

i'm thankful i did the homework assignment i had to do over the weekend (not this) this morning so that i didn't have to think about it. i'm thankful that...

thank you notes 5/27/16

i'm thankful for videos of "insane domino tricks," which are always satisfying mental furniture. i'm thankful for the way that a run of dominoes has a...

thank you notes 5/26

i'm thankful that i helped to pack and load several hundreds of pounds of equipment being sent by our department to youth leaders in ghana as part of a...

thank you notes 5/25

i'm thankful that our lawn, which had been reclaimed by nature and was host to several foot high weeds and grasses, as well as a wide variety of wild flora...

thank you notes 5/24

i'm thankful for this season of keeping up with the kardashians, which has been really good so far. i'm thankful to roughly posit, building on my critically-...

thank you notes (zilla)

I am thankful for the opportunity to be thankful. I am thankful that my son who, when he was younger, saw no point in literature now is an English major and...

thank you notes 5/23

i'm thankful that now that i'm back in my normal life, it feels like i should stop with these slow motion travelogues, though i'm thankful to have had the...

thank you notes 5/22

i'm thankful that d's conference offered breakfast in one of the hotel ballrooms on thursday and friday before the talks and panels started. i'm thankful...

thank you notes (kflo)(4)

i'm thankful for dreams. i'm thankful that i dreamt of the boy i was hilariously in love with from high school up to now. i'm thankful that in the dream, we...

thank you notes 5/20

i'm thankful that on wednesday morning, we woke up rested and refreshed. i'm thankful that the time zone here is one hour earlier, so even though we still...

thank you notes 5/18

I'm thankful that my passport, issued in 2006, has expired and I now have this picture to send in for my new one. I'm thankful that my old photo, taken when...

thank you notes 5/19

i'm thankful that d left her computer in our hotel room while she was at the conference. i'm thankful for that, and thankful that she told me her password,...

i'm thankful that the fog is starting to lift. i'm thankful that i'm starting to feel again. i'm thankful for lamotrigine and amitriptyline which seem to be...

thank you notes (k)(2)

i’m thankful for the fact that i don’t own a microwave, which i only ever miss when i need to reheat leftovers. so i’m usually forced to choose between...

thank you notes 5/17

i'm thankful to have recorded today's notes at the indianapolis airport: https://soundcloud.com/songsabout/tuesday-09-54-am-1

thank you notes 5/16

i'm thankful for my parents' subscription to hbo go, which since game of thrones started has made sunday nights a thing to look forward to rather than to be...

thank you notes 5/15

i'm thankful for lilypebbles and viviannadoesmakeup, two uk makeup bloggers/vloggers that d and i follow, for the things their recent videos have made me...

thank you notes 5/14

i'm thankful for this passage from sarah bakewell's at the existentialist cafe that i read last night before falling asleep:"Letting-be became one of the...

thank you notes 5/13

i'm thankful that i now have a toothbrush in the top drawer of my desk at work and that i use it sometimes in the afternoons if my teeth or my mouth feel...

thank you notes 5/12

i'm thankful that i wore a bright green uniqlo t-shirt with a copy of an andy warhol copy of a brillo pad advertisement to work today. i'm thankful for the...

thank you notes 5/11

i'm thankful for the sketch on the most recent episode of inside amy schumer which shifts from a group of middle aged guys at a sports bar watching a...

thank you notes 5/10

i'm thankful that grimes remixed "california" for the video, which came out yesterday. i'm thankful, even though i like the way the album version bangs rough...

thank you notes 5/9

i'm thankful to recognize the german word feeling of being near the end of a book i'm enjoying when i have a bunch of other new books that i'm excited to...

thank you notes 5/8

i'm thankful that i installed our new air conditioner in the living room window. i'm thankful that though i finally was granted return authorization through...

thank you notes (fsa)(9)

i am thankful for change.i’m thankful for how everything changes and stays the same at the same time: how the fact that i am now married, have moved from one...

thank you notes 5/6

i'm thankful that one of the visiting lecturers successfully defended her dissertation this week. i'm thankful that every time i've seen her since, i've...

thank you notes (5/5)

i'm thankful that today i've been writing these notes for six months. i'm thankful for the things that i've learned about myself and other people and art and...

thank you notes (esmé)(5)

I'm thankful for the copper bird feeder outside our kitchen window. I'm thankful for the squirrel(s) we named León who may, in fact, be more than one. We...

thank you notes 5/3

i'm thankful for cantaloupe, which was on sale again at the grocery store this week. i'm thankful for the fun of scooping out the gooey innards and trimming...

thank you notes 5/2

i'm thankful for the documentary finders keepers, which is on netflix and which we watched over the weekend. i'm thankful that the movie takes place in a...

thank you notes 5/1

i'm thankful that when i woke up this morning, it was sunny outside and when i checked the forecast, the rain that was supposed to fall in the morning had...

thank you notes(kflo)(3)

i'm thankful that on friday, my grandmother and i's city hall legal transactions were finished after enduring the hassles and inconveniences of marching on...