Thursday, December 23, 2010

Taking Account: 2010

Plenty to be thankful for:
- Danielle
- Danielle’s cooking
- bountiful workload; great year of shows
- playing Ellis’ version of Cars on the couch with him; hearing him refer to me as “Papa”
- Monroe’s laugh; looking into his brilliant, bright eyes
- our 1925 Craftsman home
- Al Andrews and Brooke Byers @ Porter’s Call
- Young Life’s Sharp Top Cove camp
- clean bill of health
- books and eyesight to read them with
- Psalm 13
- the writings of Frederick Buechner
- history (preferably not repeating it)
- Jeremy Brett’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes
- The Simpsons (for reasons of mirth and levity)
- homemade soup (preferably beef burgundy, shrimp & corn, or onion)
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
- all 311,000 miles (and counting) on my 1996 minivan
- Louisiana seafood
- perennials
- Southwest Airlines
- golf
- chickadees
- flannel sheets
- Love that saves us fools

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