What I’m Thankful For.
Or to be grammatically correct, Things For Which I’m Thankful. This time of year engenders and in fact demands this kind of reflection and, with the exception of just a really good excuse to gorge oneself into a tryptophan coma, is the actual reason for the holiday, believe it or not. So out of respect for Christopher Columbus (or whomever), Pocahontas (the historical figure not the really hot Disney character), my mother’s own looney notion that Plymouth Rock is a fake, John Smith, Chief Powhatan, funny hats and shoes and generations upon generations of dead turkeys, I offer the following things for which I’m thankful this thanksgiving:
1. My patient wife
2. The opposable thumb
3. Memories. All of them.
4. Ice Cream
5. Thongs
6. X-Box
7. Ibuprophen (especially where visiting clients from Seattle are concerned)
8. Malbec
9. The Steelers
10. Smart, engaged, innovative and daring client partners
11. Smart, engaged, innovative, daring and talented associates here at BW
12. The BMW 3 year/50,000 mile free service policy
13. Resphigi
14. Disinfectant wipes
15. Black Licorice
16. Bo, John and Chris finally getting The Bistro live. It’s a joy.
17. Our amazing resource partners (thanks Michelle, Jeff, Dan, Diane and David and everyone else)
18. The zipper
19. Guinness Stout (the real thing, not the Americanized draft version)
20. Paris
21. My beautiful and accomplished son
22. Zip ties
23. The gas stove
24. My grandfather’s notions of right and wrong
25. Blue Ray
26. The Klipsch company
27. Fire extinguishers
28. The Onion
29. My highly disfunctional, laughter filled, love filled family
30. Making it to the end of our first year relatively unscathed
31. Adam Aloicious Hayes
32. Lao Tsu
33. The internal combustion engine
34. Single use needles
35. Seedless watermelon
36. Cranberries
37. Friends old and new and far and wide.
38. Chuck Kinder
39. Kenneth Patchen
40. A good meerschaum pipe
41. The progression of the industry to true one-to-one marketing
42. Beethoven’s 6th Symphony
43. Match.com
44. Dimples
45. That I didn’t take the ACD job at Bozell in Dallas
46. That I did take the job at ASA
47. Kenya AA
48. Necco Wafers
49. Thongs
50. Black shirts