Thursday, January 29, 2015

Thanksgiving in January

I can't believe it's 2015.  And that I haven't posted since October of last year.  It's not like I've had nothing going on in my little pea brain.  I actually plan to write soon about the following topic:  The far reaching consequences of the many small decisions we make in our lives.

But for the moment, I just want to be grateful.  Let's call it my three months too late Thanksgiving 2014 post.  Without further ado, I'm thankful for the following:
  • A vacation to the Northern American International Auto Show in fabulous Detroit, Michigan.  I saw many wonderful cars, toured the Ford Rouge plant where they build the F150, saw The Henry Ford museum, went to the General Motors worldwide headquarters and saw the Detroit Institute of Arts museum.  But best of all I spent my time with an old, dear friend.  There was no romance as he is as straight as a new nail from Home Depot.  But my was it fun.




  • My twitter friends, especially a certain professor from Indiana.
  • Miguel my first personal gay moho friend, and the first person I could be unapologetically gay around.
  • Hearing from Matthew my young friend from my home town.
  • My two brothers.
  • My job and my work colleagues.
  • Music.
  • An old friend's success in his battle with cancer.
  • My 98 year old grandmother.
  • My neighbors.
  • My beagles.

  • The fact that I've lived to 2015, a concept which is nothing short of amazing to me.
  • My buddy the big boss super da da and his wonderful babies who call me Uncle Mike and actually appear to like me.
  • My cars and Harley.
  • All my wonderful electronic gadgets.
  • My cameras and the joy of an image well captured.

  • Hearing from an old blogger friend who once was lost to me, and apparently is now found since I just heard from him after near four years of silence.  This one is a big one.  To just know he's well and happy and, frankly, alive.  Who knows if we will take up where we left off, but hearing from him just this once more is sufficient to make me very happy.
  • So many good books.
  • A loud fan, two blankets and a heated mattress pad on a cold winter night.
  • Annual trips with my professor friend from Arizona who've I've known since I was 12.
  • The fact that I've known my dentist since before puberty.
  • Randomly running into an old friend from my childhood while waiting for the same flight from LAX.  He was there on church business - I was there because I returned from sinning in Detroit.
  • That I'm alive.  
  • That the world is such a beautiful, astounding, unlikely place.

  • National Parks, in all their magnificent beauty, spread far and wide across the land.  And a nation with leaders who have had the forethought to realize their immense value.
And that's just my short list folks.  Oh yeah, I'm also grateful for bloggers in our little gay Mormon world - from the true believers to the confirmed skeptics to the angry atheists.  You've done more for me than I can really express.


2 comments:

  1. OMG I made the list!!!!

    I feel like Sally Fields winning an Oscar right now: "You really, really like me!!!" I'm happy to be reading your list and above all that life is going well for you my dear friend!
    Hugs,Miguel

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