Things I'm Thankful For

In no particular order

• George Bush seems to have decided to waste away the final two months of his presidency in a stupor rather than going out in a thermonuclear bang. From him, nothing is better than anything.
• The American people put aside their accumulated prejudices to elect someone with dark skin and a Muslim name because he was the best man for the job.
• CBC's Hockey Night in Canada is available on the NHL Network because Canadians know how to do hockey right.
  
• Tina Fey and Sandra Bullock because both are very talented and cute as buttons.
• Lucy Lawless - just because.
• Groovelily for making their own kind of music.
• Joan Baez - after all these years she still sings like a lark and means what she sings.
  
• John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Peter Sagel, and Sandi Toksvig for bringing a needed perspective to the news. Without them the past eight years would have been completely unbearable.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Strauss - their music never gets old.
• The next generation of my family which has turned out to be very sweet and intelligent and, frankly, better people than I am.
• Yoga - without which I don't think I'd be thankful for much of anything else.