wanderlust Wednesday: still in DC and thankful for...

wanderingDCNovember2013Things I am thankful for:

my sisters, for being amazing, each in her own weird waymy parents, for having worked hard their whole lives so that I could have a great education and live my best lifemy grandparents, for raising my parents and still answering all my phone calls, for still being alivemy friends, for being supportive no matter where I am or what I am working on or how often I answer my phonemy city, for being a crazy, beautiful place where magic happens and people learn how to get alongall cities, for letting people live in close quarters and learn from our different, yet similar realitiesleaves, for reminding us that things changethe people I have met, for taking time to share their story with meskilled workers, for doing the things that allow people to live and wear clothes and turn on light bulbswriters, for still doing it even though it is hard and doesn't really paybloggers, for being so disciplinedartists, for doing it when everyone else is too scared, busy, or lazymusicians, for being artistsdesigners, for being a little bit of everythingentrepreneurs, for trying even though it is painfulcomputer engineers, for creating things out of 0s and 1s and spending all day and night on computersactivists, for making things happen even when everyone tells them to go away and be quiet