Thanksgiving Should be Grateful

'“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty”**

Who wrote this? It sounds Shakersperian to me, but isn’t.

I didn’t write it, though I wish I had. My list begins with the Number One.

1) I’m grateful for all the dead have given me, especially for the living.

2) I’m extremely grateful for all the things I no longer give a second thought to.

3) I’m grateful for morning, this morning, that it’s prettied itself up while I’ve been watching from inside my window.

4) That it’s Thursday Morning, November 27 today, not some other Thursday.

5) I’m grateful for the list I’ve made of people I love who are still in my life. ( I didn’t really need to make a list; they know who they are.)

6) That I still have so many things to look forward to—walking and cycling, swimming in the ocean, playing9 holes of golf; that reading and writing and writing and reading are almost one and the same.

7) I’m grateful for the known as well as the unknown.

8) I’m grateful for poetry, that a poem can begin with line, The autumn that wanders and wakes in your rmind….from “Songs of Thanksgiving”, poem, 1975 in the book of poems titled, Days by Themselves, Blue Earth Press, 2007.

9) I’m grateful for wondering, What would happen if I chose to sit in my lovely swivel chair while looking outside my window and sipping some nice whisky?

10) I’m grateful that the next Thanksgiving Day will occur Novmber 26, 2026.

Soon our guests will be here for Thanksgiving dinner and I’ll have the opportunity of doing the dishes. I’m grateful too for putting out the welcome mat.

**Doris Day,