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  • 2010
    • August
      • The only person who sees the world with the same eyes I do....
        08/21/10
        Honey,

        I must thank You for being the only person who sees the world with the same eyes I do.

        I must thank You for falling in love with the unworthy me, for being always here for me to help and spread your love.

        I must thank You for the Pain I feel every time I think

    • June
      • One-tooth-missing club...
        06/02/10
        Thank you for joining the one-tooth-missing club. I don't feel lonely anymore. Stuff happens. Teeth come and go.

        Submitted by: Pduetto

      • It was because of you. You saved me....
        06/02/10
        dt

        thank you for stopping me
        i know you probably didn't know you were the reason
        but you were

        even if your not with me anymore,
        even if you don't even know i stopped
        it was hard
        but it was because of you.
        you saved me

        thank you

    • May
      • All the short and funny youtubers out there...
        05/30/10
        Thanks to all the short and funny youtubers out there. Whenever I'm feeling down, bored or depressed, I just pull up some Kassem G., live-action comedies or some animated shorts to get a good, nice laugh.

        Submitted by: J.T.

  • 2009
    • December
      • Thank you for stepping out of my life....
        12/16/09

        I thank you for leaving me after three years. I thank for not even bothering to come back. Thank you for taking all the stuff you had at home because I wouldn’t want to see you anymore. It has been four months since you left. I didn’t realize breathing could be so much easier once you were gon

      • Congrats, you're alive....
        12/12/09

        I am thankful for the reality of knowing and realizing things. to share a few: tomorrow we may all die so make today good.
        if you are reading this, congrats, you’re alive, if you don’t see that to be enough of a reason to smile, then i don’t know about you.
        life is beautiful. find so

    • November
      • For all the ways in which he's saved my life....
        11/22/09
        I am grateful to my friend, David, for all the ways in which he's saved my life. Now that he needs my help, I hope I can help him, keep him walking, fighting, believing, just as he's done for me.

        Submitted by: Grace

      • She is worth all our love....
        11/22/09
        My mother's an alcoholic. She's a functional one. We can't get her to stop drinking. Sometimes she takes breaks from it. And she only drinks wine. It takes acceptance. It takes love. She is worth all our love. She's magical, really, with or without the drinking. I'm trying t

      • These cupcakes are better than sex....
        11/22/09
        These cupcakes a friend made me are better than sex or today they are and I'm grateful as hell, especially since I'm single. Sometimes it's the little things, you know? Yellow cake, chocolate frosting...

        Submitted by: Sandy

    • July
      • Watching fireworks near Coors Field...
        07/05/09
        Was just dancing on a rooftop overlooking the skyline of Denver. Watching fireworks near Coors Field. Amazing!

        Submitted by: Anonymous

      • What you gave us will never die....
        07/05/09
        Thank you, Michael. You lead an army of love that will go on. We may say goodbye to you, but what you gave us will never die! God bless you.

        Submitted by: Anonymous

      • Thanks to Sarah Palin...
        07/04/09
        Thanks to Sarah Palin for reminding us how often people in public life, and journalists for that matter, should just say, I have no idea what's going on. She has the chops to parade her ignorance in front of everyone without apology. (Maybe in advance of a federal corruption indictment, too, bu

    • May
      • I am beautiful and have a purpose in this world....
        05/26/09
        Thank you for being the ONE person in this world that sticks by me no matter how many times I fail you. I really don't try to mess up on purpose... I am finding that I'm an incredibly weak individual. Thank you for believing in me, my heart,...thank you for not leaving when what I did to y

      • It's like a pop song when pop songs were worth something....
        05/20/09
        Thanks for the wack-a-doo-ness of your company. The blue-blue world is bright and bouncy now. It's like a pop song when pop songs were worth something. You there - you in the glasses - I want you.

        Submitted by: Lou

      • I may not be pretty anymore, but I am solid and I'll be true....
        05/20/09
        I'm thankful for all the heartbreak and setbacks. It made me grow up. I would not have known how to be a good friend and husband to you otherwise. I may not be pretty anymore, but I am solid and I'll be true.

        Submitted by: Ed

    • April
    • March
      • I feel young again, and I'm grateful....
        03/09/09
        Like so many others, I have lost my job. I cried for days and days, felt so bad. I have a family to help support, a child in college, but only recently did it dawn on me that this might be the best thing that ever happened to me. It gives me the chance and the time to figure out what I should be doi

    • February
      • Almost mine....
        02/28/09

        thank you...
        for being quiet
        and beautiful
        and almost, almost, almost
        mine.

        Submitted by: stella

      • You have been the heart, hustle and soul of my days....
        02/01/09
        Hi, G. Watching the new Gatorade ads -- What's G? -- made me think of you and all you've meant to me. You really have been the heart, hustle and soul of my days. Thank you.

        Submitted by: D

      • I won't let myself love another married man again....
        02/01/09
        I was in love with a married man. I tried not to fall. We worked together. We became friends and then things grew in intensity and feeling. He was 10 years my senior. He was kind and funny and saw things in me that I did not. He loved his wife but was no longer physical with her. They were exhausted

      • I'm grateful for my dog's example....
        02/01/09
        I want to thank my dog. She's great. A zen master, I realize, with her simple ability to focus, unerringly, in the moment. On a toy, a game of fetch, her food, and even me. Occasionally, I could swear she's even meditating. Focus and simplicity. I'm grateful for the example and for ho

      • For fifty years, clawing and creating...
        02/01/09
        I must thank all the powers behind it, for 50 years, healthy, happy, kicking, clawing, creating.

        Submitted by: Superman

  • 2008
    • November
      • I never thought I'd be happy again....
        11/02/08
        I never thought I'd get over her. I never thought I'd be happy again. I loved her for nine years. She was never satisfied with me. I moved out. I made changes. It all felt like a forced march. It was the worse kind of loneliness. But I am happy now. It took time. I feel free. I guess I

      • Sinning is sometimes about freedom....
        11/01/08
        I don't advocate cheating on your husband or wife. I don't mean to suggest to anybody to do what I did, to sin, but I did -- I slept with a man who is not my husband. My husband, who is older than me, lost interest in sex years ago. He encouraged me to go outside our marriage, but I was ra

    • September
      • I find myself with a mate of the highest quality....
        09/04/08
        I thank the stars or the power behind them that makes good things happen to those trying to be good people. I find myself with a mate of the highest quality. A gem, rare, perfect. She's all style, brains, fun, determined, and maybe best of all, she's got an angel's face and an assassi

    • August
    • July
      • Thank you for loving me....
        07/29/08
        Thank you for loving me; thank you for understanding. Thank you for letting me vent, letting me complain, for being a slouch, for being moody. Thank you for putting up with me being so worrisome. You have no honest idea how hard I fight myself to keep from crying out of sheer joy when we spend time

    • May
      • My brother gave me half of his liver....
        05/24/08
        I had liver disease. I would have died, but my brother gave me half of his so that mine would regenerate. It did. His did. And now we fight all the time over nothing. I bought him a car. I re-roofed his house. I tell him how grateful I am. I'm telling you too so maybe he'll stop looking at

      • I have the choice to live and recover....
        05/04/08

        i want to thank you for introducing me to the drug that has tore my life apart. without you, i never would have gone to rehab. without you i wouldnt be relocating cities just so that i dont die from this addiction. thank you hood for showing me what using lovers are. thank you for loving the d

    • April
      • It was a miracle we found each other....
        04/21/08
        You died three days ago. You suffered so much. I saw it all and couldn't do anything but keep seeing and making sure there were drugs and blankets and ice chips and my hand to hold. Then you were released from it. I saw it go. I am grateful for that. I have cried for all three days. I miss you,

    • February
      • Seeing past these indiscretions...
        02/22/08
        I am thankful for finding a job I can look forward to each day. I am even more thankful for the fact that my boss hasn’t fired me yet. Sometimes I think we forget keeping a job can be just as hard as finding one. Every week, it seems, I throw away essential documents, oversleep by two hours, or abse

      • You forgot to worry....
        02/02/08
        I know how scared you are sometimes and how sad. I know you don't like growing old. I know you can't bear how your face has changed, but tonight at that dinner party you were happy. You were there with all of us so much that you forgot how hard you feel life can be. You forgot to worry, an

      • I'm lucky they didn't send me packing....
        02/02/08
        Undying thanks to my parents for putting up with me when I was a kid. I was a mess. I was mean. I was like the worst teenager on the planet. I'm not kidding. I slammed doors. I crashed cars. I stayed out all night. I drank and smoked and more. I'm lucky they didn't send me packing.
      • The world of politics can be remade....
        02/01/08
        i must confess to feeling grateful for presidential candidate Obama. i don't know if he can win but i find myself hoping he can. he makes me believe the system doesn't always have to prevail, that the world of politics and government along with its tired rules, back-room deals, and comprom

    • January
      • She yelled, "I love this! I love this! I love this!"
        01/20/08
        I try to walk everyday whatever the weather. Today it was cold and colorless with the promise of more. I had a winter attitude. Colorless too. I passed a playground. It was empty except for a man pushing a girl on a swing. She was at that just-learning-to-talk stage, maybe four. She was stuffed into

  • 2007
    • December
      • Time is ours to play with....
        12/31/07
        I went to this acupuncturist who used to be a physicist before she switched careers. She's out there, firmly, and doesn't apologize for it. She tells her clients to revisit a time when they felt safe or alive or happy or loved or all of the above. She says in physics that time and space ar

      • The one ingredient that had been missing fom all of my workouts...
        12/30/07
        I want to thank George from True Power Training. He is a personal trainer and he has helped me find the sexy girl within. He has stood by my side through the good (those days that I could conquer the world) and the bad (those days when a twinky could conquer me). I have been overweight for the past

      • She agreed to marry me....
        12/25/07
        To my girl who gave me the best present ever -- she agreed to marry me. I'm no prize, but she is. Thank you, Sandy.

        Submitted by: Bill

      • To my boys who are grateful for what I can provide...
        12/25/07
        I was remembering when I was a kid. How my parents spoiled me. Christmas was like a Hollywood production every year. They took such pleasure in it, in seeing my sisters' and my surprise and excitement. I cannot give the same to my kids. I'm a single mom, but I write here not only to expres

      • You always defended me....
        12/03/07
        You know I was against you leaving, and yes, it was probably for all the wrong reasons. I would rather have had things stay the way they were even though I hated it. I hated that we could never go places together, that I could never call you, that you never gave me the chance... But I knew it would

      • I stuck my arm out and the door shut on it....
        12/03/07
        I'd just gotten on the subway, the A train, at Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn, but then the F pulled in across the platform. That was the better train. I'd been waiting for it and settled for the A so when it rolled in I jumped up to transfer. The doors of the A train were closing, but

    • November
      • I like being sad...
        11/27/07
        So I'm sad a lot. Not always but a lot, and I've always been ashamed. I pretend I'm happy. I work on it, go to therapy, but life's hard and sometimes it's a shitbox of nonsense and woes, and then I met this guy. We've just become friends. He's an easy-going type, n

      • You helped me to stop loving you....
        11/26/07
        Thanks, Benjamin, for being such a dick. You helped me to stop loving you. I needed to. For too long I wouldn't let go. Then I did, had to, and opened myself up to meet someone I'm much better suited to. So I mean it: Thank god you committed to acting like such a mean-spirited, ignorant ba

      • The perfume on your wrist...
        11/26/07
        Thank you for letting me smell the perfume on your wrist. I've been high ever since. Lady, I'm nuts for you.

        Submitted by: George

      • You made my birthday....
        11/03/07
        I had a birthday party for myself. Most of my friends planned to come. One woman, Ellen, also came. I don't know her well, but I've always liked her. Some of my close friends showed up late, didn't bother with a gift; one of my friends forgot the night altogether. I tried not to be bo

      • Today something changed....
        11/02/07
        I've been sad for some days. I can't say why exactly. The reasons shift, but today something changed. Maybe I slept well. Maybe I ate better than usual or maybe it was just time. I loved life today -- everything about it, even the subway. I loved it all and I'm grateful.

        S

      • There was your voice, its fine, clear pitch...
        11/02/07
        Rebecca:

        We had agreed you might come to visit this October for your birthday, but then we let it slide. I got so caught up in work. I’ve had so much lately, too much, and so I took a much-needed break from the city and my apartment, from me. I wish I had not run out of gas so utterly, an

    • October
      • We've never been really close, but when I needed someone...
        10/28/07
        I was so sick, with a virus. I had a bad fever. I had terrible aches and pains. I live alone and though I'm young I didn't feel that way. I tried to get to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription but felt dizzy en route. My neighbor saw me struggling back up the stairs and went to the pharm

      • Inspiring and reassuring this viewer still...
        10/22/07
        How did he do it? Coming on sixty years ago, a Frenchman wrote a story, rooted in 18th- an 19th-century farce but focused on the then threatening landscape of interwar European bourgeois society, and filmed it. The production features what is now called an ensemble cast and is mostly talky, with a o

      • I had never seen it at first light....
        10/21/07
        I was anxious. I was thinking about bills, how long it's been since I got away, work, work, work. I couldn't sleep. So just before 5 a.m. I got up from bed, left my family, and went walking in the city until first light. I had never seen it at first light. It was a new place. It was glorio

      • I feel life there after all....
        10/21/07
        When I get this tired, this depleted, I cannot imagine I can make new or better efforts. I do not believe I can overcome what has been lost -- love, people, dreams. But then I hear your voice on the phone; or I see you -- old love, old friend, family, you are all these -- and I feel a jolt; I feel l

      • He creates balance just by walking around....
        10/20/07
        Thank you to my best friend, the man I call Gandhi (a nickname). He sticks with me. We say people are bad, basically, but my friend is not, not even remotely. Some of us are indeed bad, all or partly, but my friend is so loyal and believes so hard in the best for me, for him, for you, that he create

      • To make the unwanted wanted....
        10/20/07
        Life is hard, and I'm grateful to those people out there, from writers to pundits, holy men to cartoon characters, who remind us that we can't personalize all that goes wrong for us. Stuff does, despite one's best efforts, despite all the wishing and hoping and praying, and will go wr

      • Our strong and lovely daughter...
        10/12/07

        I thank the People's Republic of China for granting me and my husband permission to adopt our absolutely wonderful, strong and lovely daughter, Faye, and for giving us the opportunity to be parents and a family together.

        Submitted by: Susan

      • Love is about endurance, the long view....
        10/11/07


        I would like to thank my wife for loving me through tough times, when she didn't want to, for forgiving me for forgetting love is about endurance, the long view.

        Submitted by: Jeff

      • That bird was so tiny....
        10/10/07
        There was this bird on the sidewalk. It was a city sidewalk. Night was coming on and it would have been easy to step on it -- moving as fast as we do here, in the city, I almost did. I stood by it for a time, making sure no one would. The bird was young; it had more fluff than feathers, and it would

      • She's got her eyes on life as she'd like to see and live it....
        10/09/07

        My friend Sam: I need to thank everything that is everything for her. She's been a shock of pleasure, joy, chaos, and comfort in my life. She's known some challenges, and though she wasn't blessed with the most loving mother, she's learned to love and live with such intensi

      • Going out to dinner after an awful movie...
        10/08/07

        PG-

        Thank you for going out to dinner with me after that awful movie.
        You are the loveliest thing around.

        Submitted by: Coyote

      • The loveliest thing around...
        10/07/07
        The guy at my local coffee place, a friend and a stranger both, was kind to me today. A song was playing about the most beautiful girl in the world. Maybe it was a Prince song; I could only hear the high notes over the din. He said, "That's your song; that's about you." Yes, he&#

      • New York, New York
        10/06/07

        I want to thank New York City -- it's a big, bad, beautiful place. It smells and it shines. It offers so much and it takes so much. It works you, but it lets you work it too -- it can be a dirty old miracle-maker and because its citizens know that, we all walk around full of expectancy, s