Here are a few things I am thankful for right now. Just a few, I can list more later. Because gratitude is the enemy of despair and a curative for fear. And because my faith teaches me to unforget what I have been given, whether my community is experiencing sunlight or hailstorm.
I am grateful for a house full of books.
For this soft bed, when I am fatigued.
For friends who gather around us in a rough season.
For my strong wife, a fierce partner when there’s a crisis. And whose voice is soft and lovely this morning. I am thankful the house is quiet and she could sleep in.
I am grateful for my readers, who love the stories and have amazing and unexpected stories of their own.
I am grateful for my Patreon members, who keep this wild endeavor of mine funded and help keep the children fed and well.
I am grateful for the talent and skill of our local medical community. I am thinking especially of Inara’s doctors and providers.
I am grateful for Inara’s fierceness, Cirdan’s kindness, and River’s laughter.
I am thankful for this very warm blanket right now.
I am thankful for this bookmark, which reminds me where I left off and keeps me from falling into the barbarism of folding down the corners of pages. (Shudder.)
I am grateful we have clean water to drink.
I am grateful I get to tell all of you stories.
Stant
Stant Litore is a novelist. He writes about gladiators on tyrannosaurback, Old Testament prophets battling the hungry dead, geneticists growing biological starships, time-traveling hijabi bisexual defenders of humanity from the future. Explore his fiction here. And here is one of his toolkits for writers, and here’s another book where he nerds out about ancient languages and biblical (mis)translation. Enjoy!
