Gratitude

For reasons I have yet to fathom, I can find gratitude--in the broad Thanksgiving sense--a bit difficult. I have no problem thanking people for a good turn or a kindness, and make certain to do so on every occasion. But the big "What am I thankful for?" tends to puzzle me. It was a custom in my family, when I was very young, to go around the Thanksgiving dinner table and say what we were thankful for. Even as a little, tiny hamster I had trouble, and mother would be irked by what I came up with. Age has only slightly improved the situation, but at this point I can always be grateful I've lived as long as I have. Anyway... as I said, I have no trouble thanking people who have done me good, so I'd like to thank you all for following my peculiar cyber-ravings, for the sweethearts who comment and have become friends, and those who silently come by to see what I'm up to. (Yes, I look at the total number of hits.) Life still remains generally better than the alternative.