David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
Gratitude in Six Words, From Our Readers
By David Leonhardt, New York Times
Nov 26, 2020
'I am thankful to be thankful'
Last week, I invited readers to send us six words describing what made them thankful in 2020. It's a form of writing - the six-word memoir - popularized by the author Larry Smith.
More than 10,000 of you replied, and we're grateful to all of you. Here is a selection of your responses:
By David Leonhardt, New York Times
Nov 26, 2020
'I am thankful to be thankful'
Last week, I invited readers to send us six words describing what made them thankful in 2020. It's a form of writing - the six-word memoir - popularized by the author Larry Smith.
More than 10,000 of you replied, and we're grateful to all of you. Here is a selection of your responses:
- The crinkling eye above the mask.
- A furtive hug with a friend.
- The backyard haircuts are getting better.
- My choir still meets on Zoom.
- Friends who give me streaming passwords.
- Family reunion in January, before Covid.
- Miss family, but safer for them.
- Saved a lot of lipstick money.
- More homemade pasta, no more jeans.
- No shame in elastic-waist pants.
- Braless at home? No one cares.
- Mom, 87, rocking pretty, pandemic ponytail.
- Teenage son still likes to snuggle.
- My parents live two blocks away.
- No better excuse to avoid in-laws.
- This stinking year is nearly over.
- Sunny mornings, a window facing east.
- My bicycle, the trail, each morning.
- Windows have never been so important.
- Toscanini's recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
- 5329 games of solitaire, won 5286.
- Throwing the football with my sons.
- Jonesy got a hole in one.
- Still ridin' my horse at seventy.
- Postcards crossing the country - real mail.
- Living in the Green Mountain State.
- So grateful to live in Canada.
- I'm just thankful for indoor plumbing.
- I am thankful to be thankful.
- Never been social; now I'm good.
- I am bored, but not dead.
- Ambulance took him. He came home.
- Hearing granny laugh on the phone.
- It's just a cold, not Covid.
- My parents did not get it.
- Reached age 92, grandson reached 3.
- I held my dying husband's hand.
- Held my son as he died.
- Our kids, after my wife died.
- My wife gave me her kidney.
- Lung cancer team at Sloan Kettering.
- Got sober during 2020, stayed sober.
- Wasn't too late to say sorry.
- Wildfires took much but we survived.
- Faith, family, friends, dedicated medical professionals.
- Dr. Fauci and all truth-speakers.
- Volunteers who take experimental vaccines.
- Healthcare workers. Healthcare workers. Healthcare workers.
- Pandemic baby after years of trying.
- At twelve weeks, size of lime.
- Special-needs child, graduated feeding tube.
- My toddler and my weed guy.
- Toddler sees Audrey Hepburn, says "Mama!"
- I watched her learn to read.
- Water cooler chats with six-year-old son.
- Thankful for learning, in my pajamas.
- Teachers' patience. " … Reminder: no fart machines."
- I teach funny, resilient 8th graders.
- High school, even in a pandemic.
- Survived first semester of online university.
- Six years later, wife completes PhD.
- Out of prison with great job.
- Rediscovering myself by reading the Bible.
- Stole my car, not my books.
- Tried. Failed. Failed worse. Kept going.
- To be a United States citizen.
- Americans waited in line to vote.
- Thanks for voting, Americans. - Immigrant scientist.
- Gritty becoming an icon for democracy.
- Once again, my Black vote matters.
