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i'm thankful that d and i will have been married for four years this week and i'm thankful that i am about to roast a chicken, which must have been one of...

i’m thankful for the famous people newsletter, the most recent issue of which is a breathless hungover ketchupy monologue that so perfectly distills being...

to hear really good news about a friend, who i had been worried about, and how hearing her good news not only made me happy for her, though very much that,...

taking a walk with deborah on my lunch break ritz crackers my friend sam

nice conversation encouraging smart coworker to believe in herself cheesecake for dessert lightning bugs

tw: asparagus, pee, pornography, semen, internet forums i'm thankful that at the grocery store this weekend they had these thicc asparagus on sale and i...

that when i am running outside in the springtime, i am not absorbing radiation except in the sense that we all are absorbing some from the sun every day of...

i’m thankful for d and my marriage to d, that i took a mental health day today because i really needed it, even though it was hard to do it and i know...

when i look over at d in the late evening and she has fallen asleep sitting up, so peaceful and stillthat i am continuing to do a job that is very difficult,...

that d said the sandwich i made was so good she was sad when it was over

i'm thankful that today at lunch d asked me "do you think you'll ever write thank you notes again?" and i paused, and thought, because i unsubscribed her...

shorts, even though i don't really like any of the ones i have and need to get some new onesputting my work computer in my closet under piles of clothes to...

to have taught deborah the concept of the harlem globetrottersice in a drink when it’s hot

i’m thankful that though i can’t reset the password of my instagram account, i have replaced it with watching ‘the bachelorette’.

that right after d and i closed our eyes started our fifteen minute meditation, i heard miso, who is not the most loving or kind dog, do what sounded like...

allergy medications, particularly zyrtec, benadryl, flonase, and netithose medications making it possible for me to go out into the warm weather and feel the...

rihanna dancing in a bathrobe on instagramthe light on a summer evening after a brief downpour when the clouds parttoday was better than yesterday and that...

i’m thankful that this afternoon i was waiting on a coworker to join my video call and staring blankly at the dark mode text editor where earlier in the...

the golden light of mornings in the spring and summer, especially when experienced from bed, while drinking tea and reading a magazinethat we made a big...

that in couple’s therapy this week d and i both said we felt like we were making progress and things were getting better

plow pose, headstands, and other inversions

i’m thankful we watched the movie mother! since i have not seen a movie that terrible in a long time or honestly perhaps ever and that kind of a extreme...

that i updated some work computer security stuff that i had been meaning to handle but hadn't it took no time and made me glad to have it off my mental to do...

for the movie ingrid goes west

that i gently scratched the top of miso’s head until her eyes closed and she fell asleep against me

that d saw that i was busy at lunch and made me soft boiled eggs, and that the meeting that had interrupted me coming to the kitchen got canceled at the last...

for our trip to california last week, which i didn't want to go on but was nice; for sunshine, for old and new friends, for superiority burger's ketchup, for...

to walk outside with bare arms

i'm thankful that the two big trees in the yard have started to flower and that i took a picture of them from the front porch and am going to try to take one...

i’m thankful for the march 25th issue of the new yorker, which i read on a quiet couch this afternoon after a very busy few days and which had some very good...

i’m thankful that this morning, i read this cute tweet (https://twitter.com/doodlingglass/status/1111279995350122496?s=21) and gently chuckled, clicking...

i’m thankful for our friend jk, who came and stayed with us this weekend and who we got lots of quality time with, and for her daughter j, who is the cutest...

i’m thankful for this basketball poem https://streamable.com/x0hrj

i’m thankful that i went to dinner with d’s parents, who came to town from across the country unannounced (except we had been warned by her sister) because d...

i’m thankful that d and i meditated together.

i’m thankful for gummy worms, even though i am not thankful i ate the whole bag.

i'm thankful that i wrote a long letter to d and we had a good talk. i'm thankful for the way that writing these notes for so long has strengthened my...

for the little poems i’ve been doing some recent evenings

i’m thankful for pillows.

i’m thankful d and i can hold each other, since when we don’t, and when we’re fighting, it’s so easy to reduce the other person to an idea, a concept, some...

i’m thankful, since it seemed for so long like miso was allergic to petting, that lately she seems to enjoy neck (especially) and chest and (sometimes even)...

i’m thankful for the sound of d singing in another room.

i’m thankful for ‘a star is born,’ which (for me) earned its earnestness.

i’m thankful for roast beef sandwiches and discounted grocery store pecan rolls.i’m thankful that it was very windy today, which meant miso got to play the...

i'm thankful that this afternoon suddenly for the first time in months and months it was sixty eight degrees outside, the breeze a friend rather than a...

i’m thankful that most of the time today felt like a normal day.

i’m thankful that after i wrote that and felt such despair i took out the trash and walked the dog down the trail and came back in and we slow danced crying...

i’m thankful she’s back home, since i don’t have to worry about her in the same way i did when she was in the hospital, even though it’s harder, in a way,...

i'm thankful that the clocks sprung forward an hour, even though that meant that i had less time to rest today before i have to go back to work tomorrow,...