Things to Be Grateful For

There's so much: I'm grateful for my partner Donna; for work I (mostly) like and can do from home; for my excellent work colleagues (even though it was another year with three managers....); for the roof over my head.  For the performance arts organizations without whose work my life would be so much poorer; for Eun Sun Kim and Esa-Pekka Salonen and the circumstances that brought them to SF; for West Edge Opera and Opera Parallel; for San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony; for SFO's continuing mask/vaccination policy. For my many friends, on and off the internet; for Deborah, Patrick, Craig, Joshua, Nan, Georgia, Lois, Lizzy, Lizzie, Liz, Steve S. and Steve H., Kalimac, Janos, Ed, Imani, Alex, Mike, Charlise, Tim M. and Tim P., for Matt and Nancy, for Matt and Janet; for The Well, my online home since the last century; for musicology Twitter; for all of the members of the APA about relationships (my offline home since the last century). And for many folks not specifically named here.

It's been a rough almost-three years of the pandemic; I'm grateful for the scientists, doctors, epidemiologist, biologists, nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapist, occupational therapists, lab technicians, and others who've done the research to create vaccines and treatments and who've given so much - too much, in too many cases - to keep people alive. There've been too many losses and too many deaths, from COVID and other causes, worldwide and in my life; too many friends are in ill health from one thing or another. Still, I'm a very lucky person.