[ExI] Thanksgiving

[Dylan Distasio]

Great missive, Bill.  I also have much to be thankful for including this
list.

Wishing everyone a great Thanksgiving including our friends here who aren't
Yanks.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:52 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Dear chat group:
>
> If there were a competition for being thankful, I think I must win it.
>
> I am alive and still have most of my brain, except some of the memory
> parts are slowing down.  I have two cancers, a damaged heart and a bad
> back.  Yet I have more to be thankful for than to complain about.
>
> I have access to endless books and CDs, a big TV, laptop, and coming
> gadgets:  iPhone 12 Pro Max, and Applewatch.
>
> Most of all I have two 13 year old girls who are my yard workers and my
> inside help for whatever I need.  Truly they are Earth Angels.  One I am
> teaching piano.  Both will order seeds and plants for next year's garden
> which I will grow to the planting stage, and they will take over from
> there. So I will still have a garden even though the most I can do is water
> something.   Their mother, Debby, is bringing us Thanksgiving dinner.
>
> I am thankful that all of my family is still alive. For some of us we can
> only hope for better days ahead.  Even I can get better, my cardiologist
> says.
>
> I am thankful that Roz did not come off worse than she did:  she fell and
> broke her right shoulder and her left forearm, the latter of which she will
> have surgery for next week.  So I am doing just about everything for her
> that I can do, and thanks to Angela, my daughter, for her help so far.  Roz
> has osteoporosis, so the fall could have been much worse.
>
> Having a heart attack is always a wakeup call.  So I've had mine.  I take
> disgusting pills that are said to keep me alive, and should be thankful to
> have them.  Well, sorta.
>
> And a Happy Nonplastic Turkey Day to all of you:
>
> bill w
>
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