Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am thankful for...

• All of the many works coming (back, in many cases) into the public domain. See, for starters,

    @ Public Domain Day|Wikipedia
    @ European Public Domain Day – Celebrating accessible & reusable works
    @ What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? — The Public Domain Review
    @ 2026 in public domain
    @ Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated
      ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
         

• A most excellent New Year's Eve filksing. (Which started at 10am CET yesterday, and may still be going on; I left a little before 2pm.) (I did get some sleep in the middle of it.)
• It wasn't exactly a video call with R, but it sort of was.
• Not being in a war zone, despite what the fireworks sounded like last night. Also thankful that they weren't as noisy as last year.
• Unexpected email from family, friends, and some of Mom's friends. Special call-out to C'.
• My family -- whatever their location or number of feet. In particular my brother Al, my kids R and E, sister-of-choice N, her husband G and kids j and m, fosterlings c and k, and the family cats -- Ticia, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Cricket.