Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well. I have plenty to be thankful for, and as long as the thankful for list does not get lower than the angst list, I will be fine.
Shout outs and props to my
Beautiful and intelligent wife
My 2 healthy and awesome young children
My mom, who is turning the big 75 this year, and is still as alert and active as ever
My health, which is cool but I am starting to pay for a few motorcycle accidents of the past
My close and extended family, who so far are coming through this mess somewhat well
And to my friends on CM, be safe, eat a lot, and get smashed as much as possible. Next Thanksgiving I will be back in the states, and I am cooking 2 Turkey’s just to catch up.
Peace and Love,
I am personally thankful for Chris and this site; he (and the group here) has helped me to accept that I am not nuts for being concerned about current events. I have acquaintances who ridicule my fears and even most of my (limited number of) friends can’t understand why I would disturb myself by pulling my head out of the sand, much less carry on an intelligent discourse about my fears. I still vacillate between ‘motivated to see change’ and ‘paralyzed by terror’, but as this group grows, I see some hope.
May we all be blessed with an abundance of thankfulness… and aplenty of things to be thankful for.
Yes, a Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless to Chris, Erik, Lucas - the whole team, and naturally the entire community. It’s really been special being a part of this for almost a year now, watching everything develop, and now growing with the community.
Happy Thanksgiving from Buenos Aires … where a record heat wave has caused some localized power cuts. Because of stressful events in the past, people here have a very short fuse. In one neighborhood, they started a ´cacerolazo´ (banging pots and pans on the balconies), while others burned tires in the streets, to protest the power cuts.
But our neighborhood is peaceful. We´ve been looking at real estate, just for kicks. It´s up about 80% compared to three years ago. One-bedroom apartments in good neighborhoods which sold for $60,000 to $80,000 in 2005, now are priced at $125,000 to $150,000. (Real estate here is priced in US dollars.)
Retail sales peaked in September, so the local economy is about a year behind the US. The severe hits which global markets took in October and November are just being felt here. The government, which openly admits to being Keynesian, is responding with standard fiscal policy. They are also offering a tax amnesty to try to attract flight capital, which is still leaving the country for fear of the populist government of Cristina Kirchner.
Anyhow, we are thankful to be in this pleasant, beautiful city, and saddened by the horrific vioolence in Bombay. Cheers!