bono called jude last night. so. vicariously, bono called me last night. we're best friends. spending thanksgiving together, in fact.
jude and bono are saving the world.
vicariously, i am saving the world.
(actually, i'm just a proud friend.)
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it's a cold, wind-whipping day out there. i'm staying in here. jenna is home sick today, refusing to get out of her robe. good plan. except we used the last of the drip-free teabags this morning. we are the only people in the whole uk without tea, i think.
[susan, if you're reading this: can you bring over some tea?]
last night fit well into my go-to-bed-at-3-get-up-at-11 groove i've had going for the past week. i watched in the bedroom at 2 am. and had stark dreams of new england afterward.
it's so grey today.
there is a small thunder in the fireplace. the wind, the wind. it doesn't stop.
makes me sleepy, dreamy. i'm warm under the blanket.
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in light of all the fire talk happening here, and thanksgiving eve, i'm going to share two fantastic quotes that were sent to me by my nashville daddy, jim:
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that
gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be
thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as
if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which
thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a
continual feast." ~W.J. Cameron
words to live by.
Just thankful.
New Friend Annie=Longer Thankful List for Katy!
You are so blessed to have a fireplace. I had one in one of the many apartments I lived in over the years. Not an evening went by without a fire...smile