All right, so this is one day late and in the wrong country. But why not?

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I'm thankful to have been born in the same human race as Beethoven, Bach, Kirby, Miyazaki, Dante, Shakespeare, Verdi, Aeschylus, Homer, Kalidasa, Sappho, etc etc etc. I am thankful that I have the technology and resources to enjoy their work any time I please.

I am thankful for my friends. I am thankful for those among them who are geniuses and those who are just good people.

I am thankful for the wonderful beauty of my country, of Britain my second country, of the beloved city of Oxford, and of the whole European continent; and for all the people who contributed to such great beauty down the millennia.

I am thankful for the beauty of nature, for sunlit days and starry nights, for rivers and lakes and streams.

I am thankful to Debbie, Ruth, Clare and Kathy, just for having been born.

I am thankful to the Church and to my Lord Jesus Christ.