It sounds like I am on my last leg ... as in famous or infamous last words... yet many a moron takes the microphone to start thanking all the yokels they have ever met and their barbie collections when put in the spotlight. Oscars and Grammys which are a uniquely American phenom are testament.
What is the point of all that thanking? Rich people publicly thanking other rich people for rubbing when it itches is hardly etiquette or manners. Anyway what I want to do is think of serious items that need thanking -
1. Lets start with daybreak - I want to thank the SUN for showing up each morning without fail. How about that? How many of us clumsies can make such a promise? Regardless of man made holidays and other mumbo this jumbo bulb never fails. Except when its total lights out - and some asteroid escapes NASA's tracking and simply slams us all out of existence. Then who is going to wake up to see it anyway?
2. I want to thank the rivers that continue to provide life sustaining liquids in raw (as in drinking water) form or a raw material that man has learned to tame (as in scotch).
3. The planet for putting up with all of our collective abuse and turning a blind eye to the idiocy it witnesses daily. It still is the only source of any manner of nutrition that keeps us producing more idiotic ideas daily.
4. Our immediate family that puts up with whatever idiocy you do produce and unconditionally forgives (in the hope that you are going to wake up one day and thank them).
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
Thank you for this inspiring blog!
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