Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am grateful, mostly in retrospect, for what is past,...

• William Butler Yeats, who wrote the poem that provides the framework for this post.
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
• Bob Laurent, Chris Holosi, Naomi Pardue, and all the other filkers and friends who passed this year. I'm sure I'm leaving some out.
• Abraham Savitzky, my father, who would have been appalled at what the country he fought for has become.

or passing,...

• Lynn Savitzky, my mother, who may very well lose her final battle with cancer before her hundredth birthday in December.
• The American system of government, with liberty and justice for all. It is currently hanging by a thread.
• Knowing what we're up against. Knowing one's enemy is good.

...or to come. We'll have to wait to see whether the last phrase of that poem will be worth being thankful for. The first line may be more prophetic.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

My preference is for Tennyson's "Ulysses".

Death closes all: but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done.