darkemeralds: Gina Torres and Alan Tudyk being hugged by Sean tMaher on the set of Firefly. Gina's smile is brilliant. (Alan Tudyk)
It's that gratitude season again. Not that I'm not grateful every day of my life for my friends, and the internet, and being alive in the 21st century, because I am. Literally every day.

But since it's Thanksgiving time here in the old US of A, let me take a moment to thank you, the lovely people on my LJ flist and my DW circle, for engaging with me and making me think, and offering your support and encouragement as I've soldiered on through life's vagaries with varying degrees of grace and bewilderment.

Thank you, too, for being funny and fannish and serious and thinky, for being amazingly creative and inspiring, and above all for being here, in my online world, my home among the electrons.

I hope everyone is enjoying a bounty of love and friendship, conviviality and peace, in this harvest season.
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This morning, seeing that all the kool kidz were tweeting about what they're grateful for on this Thanksgiving Day, I added my 140-characters' worth:

Never sure, as an atheist, what to do w/Thanksgiving. I'm glad of so many things, but thankful? To whom? So will be gladder than usual today.

Possibly 140 characters aren't enough for a statement of a semantic stance: I immediately got some tweets in reply suggesting (as it seemed to me) that my gratitude-challenged nature is sad.

My argument, as I really did try to convey in the limited Twitter space, isn't against noticing and celebrating life's good things--or even against doing so an extra lot on one designated day of the year. I'm just trying to come to terms with the idea of non-specific gratitude.

Being glad of, versus being grateful for )

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