Thanksgiving Dinner
Nov. 22nd, 2012 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowWell, that went reasonably well. The boeuf bourgignon... I think I should have cut the beef into smaller pieces; it's a little tough. Still, it tastes good. The carrots Algerian style are - let's say, flavorful. Not something I'll make again, but interesting, and I will finish the batch. I took a labor-saving shortcut on the apple pie which left it not quite as good as last time; live and learn. Overall, it all could be better, but it's not bad atall, atall.
Thankfulness? I am, and have always been, one of the lucky ones. There's been, and still is, some bad in my life, but the vast majority of it is my own fault, while a very necessary majority of the good has come through no action of my own. That, in my eyes, is luck. I have a job that I love (for the most part), dogs that I love likewise (for the most part...), and by my standards I am wealthy - I have enough for all of my needs and most of my wants, and that's the only definition of "wealthy" that ever made much sense to me. For all of this, I am thankful.
Though there is cause for gloom in the world, there is also cause for delight. Seekers of knowledge questing further out and further in, and passing on what they find, from exoplanets to genomes; the world's knowledge, art and music, and who knows what else, all at our fingertips; violent crime in decline; goods becoming available to the world's poorest that a generation ago were unknown even to the wealthy... For all this, I am thankful.
From the large to the small: for family, friends, and colleagues, past and present, living and dead - for all of these, I am thankful.
Tho' much is taken, much abides....
Thankfulness? I am, and have always been, one of the lucky ones. There's been, and still is, some bad in my life, but the vast majority of it is my own fault, while a very necessary majority of the good has come through no action of my own. That, in my eyes, is luck. I have a job that I love (for the most part), dogs that I love likewise (for the most part...), and by my standards I am wealthy - I have enough for all of my needs and most of my wants, and that's the only definition of "wealthy" that ever made much sense to me. For all of this, I am thankful.
Though there is cause for gloom in the world, there is also cause for delight. Seekers of knowledge questing further out and further in, and passing on what they find, from exoplanets to genomes; the world's knowledge, art and music, and who knows what else, all at our fingertips; violent crime in decline; goods becoming available to the world's poorest that a generation ago were unknown even to the wealthy... For all this, I am thankful.
From the large to the small: for family, friends, and colleagues, past and present, living and dead - for all of these, I am thankful.
Tho' much is taken, much abides....
