Thankful Thanksgiving Thursday

Here we are at American!Thanksgiving again. The last 12 months have been pretty awful, but this isn't the day for looking back on the bad things (though some might be mentioned in passing). Just to review,

    $ ls ../2019/12/*thankf* ../2020/*/*thankf* | wc -l
    => 49 # gratitude posts in the last 12 months, so 3 weeks missed...

... which is marginally better than the four I missed last year. Today I am grateful for...

• Getting through the year. Getting through the first 11/12 of 2020, which I think deserves more gratitude than most years usually do.
• Mom's 99th birthday party last December. It was her last, unfortunately, so I'm especially thankful that she thought to do it when she did.
• The remainder of my extended family (our kids - R, E and their respective partners; the rest of the Rainbow Caravan - N, G, m, and j; plus my brother and his kids and grandkids) being alive and in reasonably good health.
• Our housemate, S (especially for her help with cooking and occasional cat-wrangling); Colleen's caregiver, V; our housekeeper, L'. I would not be able to keep going without them all.
• Colleen's care teams at Whidbey Home Health and WhidbeyHealth. Likewise.
• The household's excellent cats -- Desti and Ticia here on Whidbey; Cricket, Bronx, and Brooklyn in Seattle; and the YD's cat Princess Serenity in Shoreline.
• South Whidbey Animal Clinic.
• E's employer, Safeway, for caring enough about their front-line employees to keep them safe.
• Videoconferencing and chat software, notably Zoom, Discord, and (to a lesser extent) Jitsi, holding families and the filk community together during this difficult time.
• Associated Press News, especially for not being behind a paywall.
• Dreamwidth, and all of you out there helping to keep me sane.