thank you notes 10/17
i'm thankful that my mom, who was very nervous, had a great time at the orientation for her new job. i'm thankful that d and i listened to her giddy descriptions of the people she met and the things she learned and did. i'm thankful that she told me about how one evening after orientation ended, she walked around the city where she and my dad will soon live and stopped to take many pictures of the sunset.
i'm thankful for my mom and for moms in general. i'm thankful that when i was running yesterday, i came to a place where the trail is intersected by the road and saw a family stopped around a set of campaign signs for conservative local and state politicians. i'm thankful for the little boy, who was gleefully wailing on one of the signs as his parents looked on and am thankful that when i beamed at his mom, to signal my approval and the happiness i felt seeing it, she shot me a wry smile.
(i'm thankful for the nice ending to this story, but am also thankful to not give even a fraction of a fuck (much less money) about being kind to an organization whose MO is to suppress, oppress, and misinform; i'm thankful, despite whatever the supreme court rules, that organizations are not people and do not, i believe, deserve the courtesies or politesse we might try to provide to individuals even when we don't agree with them and/or think they are thinking and talking and behaving in damaging ways)
i'm thankful for the things my dad has found while packing up my parents' apartment, which include a board i broke in tae kwon do, which my tkd master signed "keep up the good job!" i'm thankful that my dad has been sending d pictures of me as a child, which include: me in a tank top in a restaurant at disney world dancing with a belly dancer, me being read to by my mom, me being read to by my mom while sitting on the toilet, me nude and splayed across a pile of blankets in front of the TV, me asleep in a carseat, me in a problematic headdress on a wooden horse, and me dressed as pee wee herman for halloween.
i'm thankful that when i was running through the country yesterday, i saw two men sitting on the guard rails along the road and fishing into a field of wilting reeds. i'm thankful that from my vantage point, i couldn't see the pond that they were fishing, which made them feel unreal. i'm thankful for the smell of melted sunscreen and for the brief moments when the clouds parted to let the light through.
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