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My free Thanksgiving yoga class is linked here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s Thanksgiving so I wrote a list of things I\u2019m grateful for.<\/p>\n Then I realized that to feel gratitude for things is also, in some way, to be attached to them. There\u2019s a balance to be struck between delighting in Mick Jagger\u2019s stage presence, for example, and likewise, remembering that everything passes. Even our breath, eventually, passes off into nothing.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s that onion skin, that cigarette paper, between knowing that life ends, and being grateful for the abundance and rareness of the world, where the magic happens. Isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n For everything I list, there\u2019s also awareness that there are other things I\u2019ve forgotten or omitted. That my gratitude is as limitless as my time on this earth and likewise, in the grand scheme of things, just a blink.<\/p>\n I would love to read your list. Here goes:<\/p>\n My beautiful funny clever generous wife and our marriage in April<\/p>\n Our son who is due in March<\/p>\n Our amazing and supportive families and friends<\/p>\n The TV show A Victorian Kitchen Garden and how calming it is<\/p>\n Things you write to me<\/p>\n My yoga students<\/p>\n A degree of political sanity returning<\/p>\n The people who worked their butts off to make that happen<\/p>\n The people who wrote the checks that paid for it<\/p>\n Andy Warhol<\/p>\n Idris Elba<\/p>\n Hugh Laurie<\/p>\n My therapist Wayne<\/p>\n My stylist George<\/p>\n My agent Christopher<\/p>\n Lol the fact that I have a stylist and an agent and a therapist<\/p>\n I\u2019m basically Elizabeth Taylor now<\/p>\n Weathering the storms<\/p>\n Interesting work and appreciative clients<\/p>\n My amazing consulting partners who I work with regularly<\/p>\n Being able to breathe in and out on a regular basis<\/p>\n My youth and my middle age<\/p>\n Moments as a teen when people said things that blew my mind<\/p>\n Yoga and meditation and the cool people who do it here in New York and elsewhere<\/p>\n The Manhattan Community Squash Center<\/p>\n Understanding what chakras mean and what they do<\/p>\n Learning Spanish, I\u2019m sorry, aprendido espa\u00f1ol<\/p>\n Mi maestra de espa\u00f1ol, Maria Jose<\/p>\n Clothes<\/p>\n Novels<\/p>\n Nonfiction<\/p>\n Writing<\/p>\n Poetry<\/p>\n I mean ee cummings Sylvia Plath and the beats and Eliot<\/p>\n You could write a whole list about Eliot<\/p>\n Art<\/p>\n Theater<\/p>\n Romance<\/p>\n Gloom<\/p>\n Howard Hodgkin\u2019s paintings<\/p>\n A roof over our heads and money to pay for it<\/p>\n Netflix, Amazon Prime, MUBI<\/p>\n The Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Washington Post<\/p>\n John Oliver<\/p>\n Twitter<\/p>\n Concrete<\/p>\n The guy in our old building who survived AIDS in New York in the 80s and wrote a memoir about it<\/p>\n The New York Public Library<\/p>\n The Croydon Advertiser<\/p>\n Guillaume de Bailly (*He\u2019s from The Bureau<\/em>)<\/p>\n God\u2019s existence, I hope<\/p>\n Sean Connery<\/p>\n Lunches in the street outside cafes that have reopened since Covid<\/p>\n Conversations over those lunches<\/p>\n My mental health<\/p>\n My physical health<\/p>\n Music<\/p>\n Golf<\/p>\n Philosophy<\/p>\n Jack Kerouac\u2019s spoken word recordings and the way he giggles<\/p>\n Shakespeare<\/p>\n Croydon<\/p>\n Doctors<\/p>\n Insurance<\/p>\n Credit<\/p>\n The Stock Market<\/p>\n Good memories<\/p>\n The films that play in my head<\/p>\n Justice<\/p>\n Savasana<\/p>\n Peace<\/p>\n I hope you are taking care of yourself this thanksgiving and I wish you all the best.<\/p>\n Meantime, if you\u2019d like to read an awesome newsletter about the sociology of food around Thanksgiving, which includes lots of feminist reflection on \u201cthe deception of wellness culture\u201d, then I recommend this one.<\/a> I\u2019m certainly grateful for it.<\/p>\n Namaste.<\/p>\n Matt<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.4.6″ min_height=”60px”]<\/p>\n