Thanksgiving

Thanks a heap for Peets coffee. Peet, you cool dude of 1970's Berkeley, I thank you for my green mug of hot steaming delicious beverage every morning. Thank you for shipping across the country. I am a proud Peetnik.

Thanks for the heat and hot water coming back on after the guys working on the apartment downstairs busted a pipe. Believe me, if the world knew how CLOSE THEY CAME to smelling my neighbors, Graham, and I after a few days of no showers, they would be giving THANKS too.

Thanks for the pink in my studio. I feel oddly calm when I look at it.

Thanks for the GE Building I pass every day to get to work. It not only makes me think of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera protesting the demolition of Diego's mural, outside its walls, but it's a beautiful building, with red marble and art deco cascades. It reminds me of why I love living in New York.

Thank you for guy who laughed and smiled with me while waiting for the subway the other night. I was watching a crumpled dollar bill on the yellow of the subway line, wondering WHO WOULD PICK IT UP? Why wasn't the young woman standing in front of it picking it up, or the people passing over it? Then, suddenly, a Hispanic man in middle age, looked down and picked it up. As he did, he looked up at me, and we both just started grinning, and then, for no reason at all, laughing. That was FOUND MONEY to me, on a Monday night commute home.

This morning, coming into work, I was crushed in with the commuters of New York City and their suitcases, which I vowed not to trip over and yet, I managed to trip over. Before I left I heard of 38 million travelers making their way to destinations of 50 miles away or more. In a city that makes every day an EVENT with its crowds and activities, I am SO GLAD that tomorrow I will be in the safe confines of my colorful apartment, cooking in my pajams, watching movies with my groom, and probably yelling at my cats to stop attacking eachother.

Thank you for this, and thank you for so much more, and everything.

Happy Thanksgiving EVERYONE!