thank you notes

thank you notes (fsa)(9)

May 7, 2016

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...

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thank you notes 5/6

May 6, 2016

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...

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thank you notes (5/5)

May 5, 2016

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...

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thank you notes (esmé)(5)

May 4, 2016

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...

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thank you notes 5/3

May 3, 2016

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...

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thank you notes 5/2

May 2, 2016

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...

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thank you notes 5/1

May 1, 2016

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...

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thank you notes(kflo)(3)

April 30, 2016

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...

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thank you notes (katelyn)

April 29, 2016

I’m thankful for to-do lists, how they can be broken down into smaller and smaller tasks until the biggest & most impossible project seems mostly manageable....

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thank you notes 4/29

April 29, 2016

i'm thankful that the faculty member's daughters were more rambunctious than he had hoped they would be. i'm thankful that he had hoped that they would sit...

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thank you notes 4/28

April 28, 2016

i'm thankful that when i came out onto the loading dock to get my bike after work yesterday, there were hundreds of students waiting in long lines that...

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thank you notes (L)(3)

April 27, 2016

I’m thankful for S & J, who consistently surprise me with their material kindnesses and friendship, particularly since on a basic level they are ‘a guy I met...

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thank you notes 4/27

April 27, 2016

i'm thankful that today is administrative professionals' day, which meant that we had stale bagels and coffee in the office at 8:30am and i did not have time...

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thank you notes 4/26

April 26, 2016

i'm thankful for the faculty member who walked his bike into the office yesterday morning, sweat-soaked but smiling. i'm thankful that he talked about how he...

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thank you notes 4/25

April 25, 2016

i'm thankful that after several days of responsible kale salads, i made us cheeseburgers and hash browns for dinner on saturday night. i'm thankful for the...

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thank you notes (helene)

April 24, 2016

I'm thankful that I share my surname (Pertl) with my grandmother, thanks to my mother keeping it and passing it to us along with sole parent status on our...

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thank you notes 4/24

April 24, 2016

i'm thankful to have nailed a folded up blanket over our front window so the glare of its white light wouldn't distract from lemonade. i'm thankful for the...

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thank you (fsa)(8)

April 23, 2016

i am thankful for j. i am thankful that he is my world, my better half, the most handsome man to have ever walked this earth, with all of his quirks and...

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thank you notes (c)

April 23, 2016

i’m thankful that last night i got to celebrate the first night of passover with a family which has largely become my second family. i’m thankful that...

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thank you notes 4/21

April 22, 2016

i'm thankful for the fun irony of how wearing my tightly-cinched heavy military poncho to keep me dry from the light rain on my ride to work caused me to...

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