thank you notes 10/5

October 5, 2016

i'm thankful that i spent less of yesterday in a shitty mood. i'm thankful that this is despite the day starting off a bit poorly when, on a leisurely...

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October 4, 2016

i'm thankful to be hopeful that i will not spend part of today in a shitty mood as i have every other day of vacation. i'm thankful for the shitty irony of...

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October 3, 2016

i'm thankful that i don't feel in as poor of a mood as i did for long stretches of yesterday. i'm thankful to have not wanted to be in a poor mood for long...

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October 2, 2016

i'm thankful that though i didn't get my parents' wifi password, i can write this in a text editor offline and send it to you later. i'm thankful for sublime...

thank you notes 10/1

October 1, 2016

i'm thankful to be writing these notes from the gate of our flight to atlanta, where we'll get on a flight to fort lauderdale and will then get picked up my...

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September 30, 2016

i'm thankful for hillary's great burn of gary johnson, which brought me great joy this morning. i'm thankful to posit that maybe the reason that gary johnson...

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September 29, 2016

i'm thankful that d is a boss and got a raise after her excellent annual review. i'm thankful my mom got an interview for a new job and that d and i shared...

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September 28, 2016

i'm thankful i slept well last night. i'm thankful that yesterday evening, i was pretty sure i had an ear infection, probably because of swimming in the lake...

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September 27, 2016

i'm thankful that we're trying a new strategy at work this week in the hope of reducing everyone's stress levels. i'm thankful to be trying the new strategy,...

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September 26, 2016

i'm thankful that even though it's monday, i'm happy because i know that next monday, i'll be on vacation. i'm thankful that it rained overnight and that...

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September 25, 2016

i'm thankful to have slept past 8 yesterday morning and then again this morning. i'm thankful, though i usually wake up earlier and like waking up earlier,...

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September 24, 2016

i'm thankful that after several long days of disrupted routines, of late nights and early mornings and labor physical, intellectual, and emotional, d and i...

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September 23, 2016

I'm grateful for the Great British Bake Off. I don't even watch the show. But I love how so many people around the world can get so madly excited and...

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September 22, 2016

i'm thankful we stayed out late, first at a bar and then, after a trip to the big liquor store, in one of my coworkers' hotel rooms. i'm thankful that d and...

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September 21, 2016

i'm thankful for maureen dowd's hilarious assertion that donald trump would use the word "frisson" or even a coarser word that could be translated to...

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September 20, 2016

i'm thankful that i forgot to set my alarm last night and so we woke up twenty five minutes after it should have gone off. i'm thankful that's okay because...

thank you notes 9/19

September 19, 2016

i'm thankful for the salads i made for our dinners over the weekend. i'm thankful that though d gave up on her tomato plants, they continued to fruit all own...

thank you notes 9/18

September 18, 2016

i'm thankful that yesterday, while looking for an old email, i got distracted by looking at other old emails. i'm thankful that in this spell of distraction,...

thank you notes 9/17

September 17, 2016

i'm thankful for the concept of the decisive moment in photography. i'm thankful that the other day, i came upon d who was sitting in her underwear on the...

thank you notes 9/16

September 16, 2016

i'm thankful for the challenge of finding new ways to describe how much i am struggling with work right now, even though i know that's probably not that...

thank you notes 9/15

September 15, 2016

i'm thankful that work continues to be very hard but that i continue to do it. i'm thankful for the way that hard work bonds the members of my team, that i...

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September 14, 2016

trigger warning: contains descriptions of self harm and suicidei’m thankful I re-read a little life on the plane back from lagos. i’m thankful I cried so...

thank you notes 9/13

September 13, 2016

i'm thankful that i realized quickly that i had included an API key for our knowledge base in a publicly accessible website where, i realized quickly, i...

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September 12, 2016

i'm thankful that i suddenly ran out of steam and felt light headed halfway through my run yesterday. i'm thankful that rather than force myself through the...

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September 11, 2016

i'm thankful to remember how when i was in tenth grade in murfreesboro tennessee, i had no friends and no one to eat lunch with, even though this was the...

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September 10, 2016

i'm thankful that yesterday, which was hard, is in the past. i'm thankful to remind myself that days are finite and that time is always moving forward, so...

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September 9, 2016

i'm thankful for "still processing," the new podcast from wesley morris and jenna wortham. i'm thankful for their easy intimacy with each other, for their...

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September 8, 2016

i'm thankful that my university found my missing package. i'm thankful that it was sitting in a locked closet no one had checked for it after it had been...

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September 7, 2016

CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS AND MIDNIGHT SPECIALi'm thankful i meditated again yesterday, twice. i'm thankful to remember how when i first started...

thank you notes 9/6

September 6, 2016

i'm thankful to have gone on two long runs this weekend and to have slept and felt great rather than having the weird emotional and physical crash i've...

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September 5, 2016

i'm thankful i don't have to work today.

thank you notes 9/4

September 4, 2016

i'm thankful for the long walk (5 hours) that d and i took around town yesterday, the first long walk we'd taken in a while. i'm thankful for the way that a...

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September 3, 2016

i'm thankful it's 57 degrees outside. i'm thankful it's been cooler the last few days and will be for the next few days. i'm thankful to not have to keep the...

thank you notes 9/1

September 2, 2016

i'm thankful that the other night after difficult days at work, rather than sit on the couch and watch TV or play videogames, d and i took a walk after...

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September 1, 2016

I’m thankful that when I poured milk into my small, square tupperware container filled with flakes of organic oatmeal and a few anaemic currants, I instantly...

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September 1, 2016

i'm thankful that today J and i are getting married.- esmé (09/01/2016). esmeawright most placespreviously: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

thank you notes 8/31

August 31, 2016

i'm thankful that emily gould has a tinyletter now (!!!!) and thankful to recommend you go directly to the first letter and read it if you haven't yet. i'm...

thank you notes 8/30

August 30, 2016

i'm thankful for gene wilder, who passed away yesterday and who was a great actor. i'm thankful to remember one summer day when i was a child when my parents...

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August 29, 2016

i'm thankful i spent fifteen minutes of my thank you note writing time this morning watching beyoncé's performance at the VMAs. i'm thankful for fog machines...

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August 28, 2016

i'm thankful that we decided to go for a walk yesterday even though there was a chance of rain. i'm thankful that early in the walk, there were a few...

thank you notes 8/27

August 27, 2016

i'm thankful we got takeout last night from a chinese place we hadn't tried. i'm thankful it was really good. i'm thankful for steamed scallion dumplings and...

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August 26, 2016

i'm thankful d told me an anecdote a friend told her about how when the friend got married, her grandmother had offered the friend's fiancee $100k if he...

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August 25, 2016

I'm thankful Kadhja Bonet's voice exists, even when everything has lost it, her voice is still delicious to me. That and white chocolate buttons. And human...

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August 24, 2016

i'm thankful that the sci-fi dream i had about everyone coughing up blood from secret cancer because of poison dust in the atmosphere was just a dream. i'm...

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August 23, 2016

i'm thankful for the brief quotation of "here, there, and everywhere" on "white ferrari." i'm thankful for this bit from every song ever about how john...

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August 22, 2016

i'm thankful that it's 55 degrees outside, which is the lowest low we've had in a while. i'm thankful in the summer in the morning when you step outside and...

thank you notes 8/21

August 21, 2016

i'm thankful that when i got up from reading a magazine on the couch yesterday afternoon, i looked out into our overgrown backyard and saw our landlord's...

thank you notes 8/20

August 20, 2016

i'm thankful we're having chili cheese dogs for dinner tonight. i'm thankful for zach's, the place where i learned to love chili cheese dogs, in my hometown...

thank you notes 8/19

August 19, 2016

i'm thankful for "killing me softly with his song," both the fugees version and the roberta flack version. i'm thankful in the fugees version how that weird...

thank you notes 8/18

August 18, 2016

i'm thankful that d made dinner last night. i'm thankful that for a long time, i've taken pride in the fact that i make our dinners most every night, partly...