I’m grateful for a really, really early morning. I’m grateful for a bright fire and a very dark, cold sky. I’m grateful for the feeling when the bat hits the ball. I’m grateful for time with my son. I’m grateful to be sober today.

A Note from Management:

Before plunging on with the one, the only, the maybe-not-as-renowned-as-it-should-be, the Sunday Gratitude Extravaganza1, we would very much like to thank all of you for all of your support. We are especially grateful for all of the new subscribers! We considered doing a “New Subscriber Spotlight,” but since we deal with a lot of alcoholics and addicts here, we thought that might not necessarily be appreciated.2

I know I speak for Jane and Sean, we’re very grateful for the chance to share what we get to share with you. Speaking for myself, I am especially grateful because I know how important this has been for my own sobriety. We would very much like to extend the sharing thing to you, our beloved audience of loyal subscribers. If you’d like to share a gratitude list, or even write something about your story, we’d love to start featuring those.3 We can do it anonymously or we can be super public about it—this would be up to you. The first step is getting in touch with us. You can send us a message here somehow, or you can email us at ThanksFLMS@gmail.com.

Somehow, it doesn’t seem right to do what I’m about to do, but you loyal readers know that this alcoholic developed the uncanny ability to ignore that troubling feeling and just plow forward:

We’d love to have you consider a paid subscription.

We’re not in this for the ca-a-a-ash. Like they say in AA, we’d rather have you than your money, but if we could have both? Anyway, we love getting to do this (it has me on my laptop at 5:20am) and we appreciate your support no matter what. But if you enjoy this and think that you’d like to send us to breakfast sometime, we’d be very down with that. Anyway, thank your for your support, we hope to hear from you!

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