As I mention every year, the week of Thanksgiving is easy fodder for a sporadic blogger such as yours truly. Lots in this world we’d love to change, but lots in this world I am grateful for, too.

I am:

• Grateful for the love of my life.

• Happy to be alive, and in reasonably good stead.

• Proud to work for our members, and with the fantastic people with whom I do.

• Glad I get to participate in discussions that (hopefully) help advance the massage and bodywork profession.

• Blessed to spend my life with three outstanding sons, who make their father proud every day.

• Grateful for the Grateful Dead.

• Thankful for my bimonthly massage.

• So impressed by the thoughtful, engaging voices in our profession, like Allissa Haines, Laura Allen, Michael Reynolds, Emmanuel Bistas, and our own Abram Herman.

• Excited about the future of this profession, our organization, and growing old with them both.

• Getting really serious about blogging more frequently in 2012.

May your Thanksgiving be complete with friendship, family, and laughter.

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