That clear sense of gratitude with no apparent object is one of the things that keeps me the agnostic side of atheist.

I enjoy Thanksgiving since I’ve been blogging, I never thought much about it before.

Thanks for sharing your walk and observations.

JMartin and Lady P – One of the attractions of waiting a few more years to produce a paper artifact, aside from the additional richness, is that I won’t feel so reluct to engage in overnight travel (say, for example, if I decided to go visit blogging friends in London). Some days will end up with four entries instead of five – no big deal.

The database idea sounds really cool. Do you have any idea what tools I could use? Email me. (Note that it’s already searchable – the Tumblr search function seems to work pretty well. Which is cool, because there’s no way I’m going to weigh down the entries with tags yet.)

Of course this is nothing like paper. But given the nature of the means of original distribution wouldn’t it be exciting to extend the concept to more flexible digital home?

Dave, what do you think?

But five years? I know that I’m older, and I gather less hopeful: can we talk you into three stanzas?

What about a subscription chapbook for MP fans who commit to purchase the final product? It could contain the first year of entries, with room to paste in the next stanza from the web. Too Advent Calendar?

Am starting to sound like one of the Sixth Graders from my nfp’s reading room. Her constant plea to exceed weekly new book allotment: “But I NEED this book.”

Thanks for that link. My latest thinking about a Morning Porch book has taken a more ambitious turn: I’d like to keep making daily entries for five years, and then arrange them in synoptic fashion, with five brief paragraphs/stanzas for each day.

Isabelle – Thanks for stopping by. That is the typical porcupine physique, and I don’t know how to account for it. They are strict vegetarians. They may eat other plants and leaves in the summer, but all winter long it’s nothing but tree bark and twigs.

bev – Ha! You’re on to me. Yes, that’s why the camera was shaking, too. Damn harmonica.

Rachel – If you say so. (I hope U of T kicked A&M butt!)

marja-leena – Thanks! Yes, I was pleased by how well those photos turned out. I can’t imagaine I would’ve liked the results nearly as well if I’d been lucky enough to catch the hawk in the act.

Lady P – Glad you liked those. I really like the new Flickr slideshow, the way it gives a full-screen option.

..deb – Thanks.

David – You too! Yes, the feast-and-family part of my Thanksgiving went well. It just wasn’t as photogenic.