I am thankful 10/24/2010
For monasteries. Last weekend I got to visit two monasteries, and it made me quite happy, even though I did not get to stay at either for more than a few hours.
For a an effortless and affordable heating system, plenty of blankets and lots of warm clothing. I do not like being cold and am so very thankful for the fact that I have no reason to fear the winter.
For bookshelves. I first started stacking books on the floor when I was about 15 and many library sales had enabled me to exceed the space on my ample bookshelves. Josh was somewhat horrified by the idea of keeping books on the floor, but when we got married our combined book collections was far too large for our bookshelf space and a lot ended up in the fireplace. We have not had bookshelves since we moved this spring, but we finally do now. Yay.
