My Gratitude List 2022
The following is a non-exhaustive, non-prioritized list of things I am grateful for this year:
I am grateful to live in a city like Denver, that knows the value of helping our neighbors and living in community.
I am grateful for teachers and librarians who work tirelessly every day to protect and encourage learning, truth, and curiosity.
I am grateful for the community I’ve found online (both the direct and parasocial) that show me how to love, struggle, laugh, and learn as our real selves.
I am grateful for the two silly dogs coating my home in hair and unflinching affection.
I am grateful for the silly, rambunctious, joyous family I’m in - and the mother who will die of embarrassment due to her daughter’s inclusion of a dangling participle on her public blog.
I am grateful for the large, robust, welcoming family I’m marrying into.
I’m grateful for my very ugly, very not funny, very boring friends (😉)
I’m grateful for the young people constantly proving they are more than the worst the media believes of them.
I’m grateful for the arts and humanities for helping us see the most true versions of ourselves.
I’m grateful for the many forces conspiring to put me in this wonderful life, and the many people working hard to make sure everyone has the opportunity to live a life like mine.
Honorable mention: I am thankful for you, the person reading this. Your very existence. Happy Thanksgiving, all.
