Fawlty Showers

Gratitude

I turned my attention to the second column, things to enjoy and celebrate.  Once again, I slipped into the trap of trying to write something profound when I needed to stick to the everyday.

After several false starts, I began writing an alphabetical list.

I started with Abigail, as much as she annoyed me, I had to be grateful I wasn’t her. Being wound that tight couldn’t be easy. I made a side list of other people I was glad I wasn’t.

When I got to ‘f’ I wrote ‘Friends who are family, family who are my best friends.’ I couldn’t believe how lucky I’d been in that regard.

I followed that with ‘Go Go Gophers’, one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid. My dad and I would laugh out loud. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized how many dads didn’t spend their Saturday mornings watching TV with their kids. Gratitude swept over me at the memory.

The ‘p’ was easy: pizza. Vincent’s pizza, thick and greasy, 1,000 calories a slice, and little bit of heaven in a box.

The list went on.

Today I will write a long gratitude list.

 

Fawlty Showers © 2020 by Ken Montrose

Fawlty Showers is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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