On Thanksgiving Day, this most wonderful of holidays, may I express my deep gratitude for:

• zodaical light, an elusive glow visible on the darkest of nights ...
• youth, in all its callow foolishness yet our future ...
• xenon, the noble (if not quite inert) gas ...
• waterfalls, from tiny trickles to thunderous cascades ...
• vibrato, especially in violin solos ...
• upside-downness, inversions, mirror-images, reversals, ...
• tangles, twists, torsions, tricks, & traps ...
• songs with stuttering (see My Generation) ...
• rights, inalienable and otherwise ...
• quiet, calmness, solitude, peace ...
• paper, such a splendid medium ...
• obvious & oblivious, almost opposites ...
• neighbors & neighborhoods ...
• mathematics, forays into the deepest and simplest of realms ...
• libraries ...
• knights, knaves, knees, knowledge, and other silent leading letters
• jellies & jams, plus the jars they come in ...
• ideas & innovation ...
• holes, in donuts, semiconductors, and the fabric of spacetime ...
• Giuoco Piano, a sheep-clad chess opening misnamed the "quiet game" ...
• fire, first among tools ...
• evidence, clues, hints, suggestions, and leads ...
• duets, two-part inventions, counterpoint and harmony, two made one ...
• consciousness ...
• beautiful bountiful bouncy brown, uh, eyes (^_^) ...
• "All things counter, original, spare, strange; / Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) / With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim ..." (Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty)...

Tnx!

TopicLife - 2001-11-22

(correlates: ThreeThoughts, LessMore, TrajeDeLuces, ...)