What are you thankful for?

[jpianoflorida]

what are you most thankful for this year?   

[burstroman]

Public domain

[pianistimo]

God.  i mean - He's always there and we just think - He's supposed to be there.  what if He didn't want to be there.  what if it was sort of 'oh, another day - i guess i have to look after these dummies.'  but, He never seems to treat us badly or with disrespect - even if we are like teenage children to Him and race by and ask for the car keys.

[lau]

the piano

[Waldszenen]

My Super Sandwich Maker


Thank God in his heaven for that adorable machine.

[penguinlover]

Wow, what a question Jay.  I guess I am most thankful for God, who loves me unconditionally, when I don't deserve it.  He loved me when I was an enemy to Him.  That is truly amazing to me.  I am thankful for the salvation He gives me,and offers to everyone.

I am thankful that God gave me an ability to play the piano, and to praise Him.  I try to make every time I play a testimony to Him. 

I am thankful for my health.  I am thankful for my family, my five children, my two son in laws, and everyone's health.  I could go on and on, but you only asked for one, and I gave you so much more!  Penguin lover  (I guess I should be thankful for penguins, but I don't actually have a real one!)

[ada]

Was about to write witty riposte saying thankful this hasn't been turned into a jesus loves me thread.

Looks like ah is too late.

*bangs head against wall*

[penguinlover]

Sorry, ada.  Didn't mean to steal your thunder.

[pianowelsh]

The Grace of God! Im sorry im a subscriber too. But its true the older you get in the Lord the more you appreciate just how much He loves you and just how little you deserve it. I mean what is man that God should be mindfull of him. Take a look at creation our galaxy alone has billion+ stars we are so tiny If we were big enough to create something like that we would take the attitude 'oh theyre not important, anyway they offended me big time, i'll just squish them I have plenty more resources I have no need of them' But God is so not like that He cares for us so much Obviously in salvation, but also in the little everyday things. he answers what really are prayers abot really trivial/small things (theyre big to us but in the grand scheme of history and creation they are inconsequential) but he does it because he loves us (christians). He goes as far as to say I love you so much I want to adopt you into my own family (god who made the universe no less).  God blesses us through his word - those horrible days when you want to quit with everything and you come to the bible and God just touches your soul with a word that is as clear as someone speaking it right into your ear.  Christians have so much to be thankfull for all the time.
What are you thankfull for ada - really?? im sure you was only jokin...by the way banging head isnt good for it.  Live long and prosper!

[ada]

What are you thankfull for ada - really??

Okay pianowelsh seeing as you ask.... I am going to go all earnest and serious and boring now.

I am thankful that my children are healthy and loved and well-adjusted.

I am thankful that I am in good health.

I am thankful that the tide is turning against George W. Bush in the US.

I am thankful that at least some Americans are waking up to what most of the world was saying about the quagmire that's Iraq years ago.

That I am one of the privileged minority in this world who has all their basic needs met, and more.

That I don't live in a country torn apart by war.

That I have a decent profession.

That I live on a far-flung continent with breath takingly beautiful coastlines and skies as blue and spaces as big and wide as you'll see anywhere on the planet.

That I aint got no religion.

That I have a piano, even though it is a crappy one.

[pianowelsh]

Good! anyone else???

[jpianoflorida]

well since I've started this thread I guess I should say I'm thankful for:

GREAT FAMILY

JOB I LOVE

I HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY MY BILLS

I HAVE THE MEDICINES I NEED TO KEEP MY HEALTH IN CHECK

GREAT FRIENDS

MY LIFE IS GOOD! AND I THANK GOD FOR THAT!

I'm thankful for certain forum members that are positive and encouraging...   penguinlover, hyrst, pianistimo, and pianowelsh specifically.   

[rimv2]

That I aint got no religion.

Not having a religion is a form of religion

Juss picking on you


Ahm thankful for having experienced the beauty that is a piano after being deprived for so many years

[jpianoflorida]

That I aint got no religion.

maybe your religion is using bad english! ha!

[penguinlover]

I too am thankful for my new friends on this forum!  Thanks Jay

[arensky]

I am thankful to be alive.

Last year the odds were against that.

[jpianoflorida]

I am thankful to be alive.

Last year the odds were against that.

I'm glad you are here!    How are you doing this year? Wishing you the best!   

jay

[pianolist]

That I have a piano, even though it is a crappy one.

Here's a tip, Ada. After you've settled down in your new job, and Tim's baby is past weaning, buy yourself a Pianola Piano, a good make, probably with an Aeolian player action. They nearly always put player pianos in good pianos, so it should be excellent to play by hand, and at least in the UK the price of them has gone completely through the floor. I got a really good upright two years back on Ebay for £50, though I did have to spend another £150 on renting a van. They haven't been so cheap (inexpensive) since the 1970s.

I guess I should be thankful for penguins, but I don't actually have a real one!

I thought you were hooked on chocolate biscuits. I really did!

[Waldszenen]

maybe your religion is using bad english! ha!

Score!

[jpianoflorida]

Score!

hey Waldszenen! how the heck are you?

[penguinlover]

Chocolate biscuits?  Never mentioned them before, but I'll give them a try some day.  They may be good.  Almost anything chocolate is good, and now they say that dark chocolate could help prevent heart attacks!  My kind of medicine!

[jpianoflorida]

I had a friend in high school that his family use to have "chocolate and biscuits" for breakfast! unfortunately he was very overweight so I'm not sure that was a good breakfast food!

[penguinlover]

Nope. I am thankful I can have bacon and eggs for breakfast.  Coffee and toast.  Many in the world are unable to have this feast every day.

[jpianoflorida]

no eggs for me..allergic, eggs give me migraines!     but I love sausage, bacon, grits of course(being southern)...    cheese grits! yeah!  and of course Hardees Chicken biscuits...     gourmet coffee...just brewed some Gevalia....anyone else ever order from Gevalia! I think they have sent me about 5 free coffee pots over the last few years!

[jpianoflorida]

https://www.gevalia.com/gevalia/

[penguinlover]

Our daughter got us a Gevalia coffee pot last year for Christmas, along with their coffee.  Great stuff.  We sure enjoyed it. 

[pianolist]

Perfect when you're P... P... P... peckish

https://www.mcvities.co.uk/80256C1A0047922E/vWeb/pcTSTT5EPGG9

[burstroman]

Thankful for members like pianistimo, penguinlover, and pianowelsh, et al.

[pianistimo]

well, we'd like to return the favor...and give you a big hug.  if it weren't for someone to talk with and discuss - we'd not really know what we thought.  i speak for myself.  being at home a lot - i have noone to really talk to during the day besides the typical mom stuff. 

[penguinlover]

Hang in there pianistimo - it gets better.  One of these days they will grow up, and you will wonder what happened to the time.  Cherish this time.  I would redo it if I could.  I love being a mom.  But now I can concentrate on my piano more, and other things in life that I haven't had the time to do. 

I read more too.  Hate to tell you this when your husband reads so much.  You probably don't see the excitement in it.  But I haven't been able to sit and read for so long, it is really enjoyable. 

[pianowelsh]

Agreed  pIanistimo Big hugs all round!  PS for a non american, can someone please explain to me what grits are...I ve heard the term mentioned many times but am completely at a loss to what they could be.......just so I know when im stateside.

[pianowolfi]

I am thankful for life in general, for the wonderful gift of music, for the fact that I have been saved out of several seemingly hopeless situations. Especially I am thankful for the fact that I have been given the chance to begin life again after I almost was about to end it 16 years ago. So i am mainly thankful to my guardian angel (in which I believe out of experience, please don't start debates) to people who have helped me and of course over all thankful to Christ, who is the guarantor of my freedom for me and getting a more and more personal friend.

[jpianoflorida]

Agreed  pIanistimo Big hugs all round!  PS for a non american, can someone please explain to me what grits are...I ve heard the term mentioned many times but am completely at a loss to what they could be.......just so I know when im stateside.

here you go!

https://www.grits.com/

[arensky]

I'm glad you are here!    How are you doing this year? Wishing you the best!   

jay

I'm gald I'm here too  . I'm doing just fine this year, never been better in fact.

[thalbergmad]

I am thankful for left handed Banjo makers.

Thal

[mephisto]

I am thankful for Pianos, the existence of Marc andre Hamelin and beautifull girls.

[pianowolfi]

and beautifull girls.

Yes sure, i forgot these, seconded!

[ahinton]

I am thankful for left handed Banjo makers.

Thal

By that, do you mean makers of banjos specifically designed to be played by left-handed players, or banjo makers who are themselves left-handed, or both?

Bst,

Alistair

[ahinton]

The fact that Microshaft permits the use of circumflexes, apparently...

Best,

Alistair

[pianowolfi]

The fact that Microshaft permits the use of circumflexes, apparently...

Best,

Alistair

Yes, the Great Microsoft God allows us even to use this: niño, Pärt, Bartók, Janáçek. Isn't it amazing?

[pianolist]

The fact that Microshaft permits the use of circumflexes, apparently...

I'm so thankful for my Mac. It makes such accents even easier than Godowsky's Etude no 42.

[ahinton]

Yes, the Great Microsoft God allows us even to use this: niño, Pärt, Bartók, Janáçek. Isn't it amazing?

Not only that, it permits the use of many other far more obscure accents and double accents, diacritical symbols (as used in standard transliterations from Arabic, for example), etc., thereby rendering the old Fontographer software pretty much redundant, it would seem; even Cyrillic symbols are available, presumably making the abovementioned God "the Great Gates of Kiev"...

Best,

Alistair

[pianolist]

even Cyrillic sympbols are available...

Ah, Cyrillic! I'm using that on the leaflet for a concert our Pianola Institute is doing at the Purcell Room on Sunday 3rd December at 3 pm. Fancy that!

[ahinton]

Ah, Cyrillic! I'm using that on the leaflet for a concert our Pianola Institute is doing at the Purcell Room on Sunday 3rd December at 3 pm. Fancy that!

Yes, my dear Pianolasaurus Rex (so vastly superior to the Oedipus variety as foisted upon us by the egregious Igor Fyodorovich) - I had noticed that already!...

Best,

Alistair

[pianolist]

I used to have nine pussycats, one of whom was called Edie. She was named after my ex-wife's grandmother, but it still led to friends raising eyebrows. Night-night, ahinton. I'm meeting a friend at Heathrow in under seven hours, and that's the other side of London. I'm jolly thankful for the M25 !

[ahinton]

I used to have nine pussycats, one of whom was called Edie. She was named after my ex-wife's grandmother, but it still led to friends raising eyebrows. Night-night, ahinton. I'm meeting a friend at Heathrow in under seven hours, and that's the other side of London. I'm jolly thankful for the M25 !

Vale, Rex! Thankful for the M25? Well, I suppose one should try to be thankful for any free parking space in London these days - and that's the only one I've encountered lately in a city where, if one is caught sneezing more than three times in succession by a police officer in Oxford Street, one is likely to have a congestion charge slapped on one...

By the way, as a pianolist extraordinaire, do you think that the pianist Michael Roll ought to have changed his surname to avoid any possible misunderstanding?...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

By that, do you mean makers of banjos specifically designed to be played by left-handed players, or banjo makers who are themselves left-handed, or both?

Bst,

Alistair

The first one old chap.

Thal

[ahinton]

The first one old chap.

Thal

Thank you for clearing that up, you plucky young chap - and to think that, in my ignorance, I once thought that "banjo" meant a veto on Haydn...

Best,

Alistair

[pianolist]

Thank you for clearing that up, you plucky young chap - and to think that, in my ignorance, I once thought that "banjo" meant a veto on Haydn...

When I was a kid, I used to think that "fart" was spelled with a "ph". My mum was an English teacher, and I must have been far too well-behaved for my own good.

[thalbergmad]

i once thought that "banjo" meant a veto on Haydn...

Well, i once thought that Johnny Cash was the change from a Durex machine, so i guess we are as bad as each other.

Thal