TOW: What I'm Thankful for in 2011

Well, it's been a year.


It's been a really long year in some ways.  In fact, it's been a tough year.  But it's been a liveable year.   Year before that, not so much.

What I'm thankful for this year is a pretty good list:

• My health
• My family, my really, really great family.
• My best friends.  The people who call me several times a day just to tell me they're stressed or bored or wondering what's going on in my life.  For the people who climb stairs with me or push me to be sillier, smarter, calmer, stronger than I would be by myself.
• For the peace we have in Canada.  
• For the safe access to food and water that we have in abundance.  There's plenty of places this year (Haiti, Africa in general, Sudan, Somalia) where social injustice, poverty and famine are literally killing the people.
• For the (relative) financial stability of Canada and myself this year.  My life sometimes feels mirrored by the world's financial state at the moment.
• For all the tough situations this year that have made my life harder, but have got me working to create a better life for myself.

More than anything, I'm thankful for anyone in my life that has tried to make me smile and be happy over the past year.  So cheers to those people who have been there for me during the rough times, and laughed with me during the good times.