25 Thanks

  1. People who have welcomed me into their lives
  2. People who have taught me what matters in life and shown me what doesn't
  3. The ability and opportunity to earn money
  4. The NLT Bible translation
  5. Chocolate chip cookies
  6. The ability and opportunity to make music
  7. The ability and opportunity to listen to music
  8. The gym
  9. Coworkers I enjoy being around
  10. Paid work that is not boring
  11. Music streaming services providing a wide variety of music
  12. Thanksgiving meal leftovers
  13. Refrigerators which preserve food
  14. God’s compassion and patience when I take a long time to learn hard lessons
  15. Friends’ and family’s compassion and patience when I take a long time to learn hard lessons
  16. A mind and body that can learn new things
  17. Modern airplanes that allow us to travel across the world in a matter of hours
  18. Patient flight attendants and fellow airplane passengers
  19. Audio messages
  20. Sweatpants
  21. The writers who have come before me who inspire me to write
  22. The musicians who have come before me who inspire me to make music
  23. The people who have loved big who inspire me to love big
  24. God’s grace that has carried me then and carries me now
  25. The love of my life

In no particular order, some of the things I am grateful for this year. See 2021 , 2022, and 2023 lists