Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
This year I’m thankful. I was much less sick than the year before. I finished up graduate school (though officially, I won’t be graduated til January 15, I still feel that wee-hoo! feelign of being DONE!) My first book of poetry was published. (Some people didn’t hate it, and some nice folks even reviewed it! Joy.) I wrote another book of poetry, that now I have to start thinking about publishing. Thanks for my husband, who still loves to hear me read poetry after 405+ readings over twelve years. I have a wonderful set of poet friends locally, a great group of poet friends online (thanks interweb, you grand series of tubes 😉 and a loving family. Thankful for my new kitten, who kept waking me up last night by chasing his own tail in frantic circles at 1 AM, 6 AM. Thanks for the stack of books waiting for me to review, not one of which I’m not excited to read. I’m thankful today I will stay home and be quiet, making a little food for just the two of us and the cats. Thankful to everyone who reads this, everyone who encouraged me this year with kind notes and reminders. So it’s the rainest month in Seattle on record. So my student loans are coming due at the beginning of January. So? I have a lot to be thankful for.
I hope you do too! Happy day of Turkey and cranberries, damp leaves, football, loved ones, pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust. All right, I’ll stop before I sound like a holiday special…
Note: For those of you shopping for poetry lovers (or those you’d like to introduce to poetry) – here’s a customized list, prepared by Kelli A. and posted by Ivy A:
http://ivyai.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-thought-this-was-neat-idea-elegantly.html