Gratitude 2

My original intent of expressing gratitude in blogs presents a problem and that problem is that the format constricts sentence variety.  It becomes a simplistic subject, linking verb and predicate adjective or preposition. Stylistic constraint at its worst which should be something for which I am grateful.  On the other hand, I might revert to enumeration and list those things for which I am grateful with numerbers.  Not much room for creativity, humor or serious reflection.
Precision.  One other difficulty is verb selection.  One may be grateful for silence, health, a spouse, a life style.  Tiresome.  Happy.. Now I might employ that.  I am happy to be retired but happy is too weak a verb to express my gratitude.  Ecstatic comes much closer to my state of being.  Alas I must conclude that a gratitude blog gives small room for the intent of my original blog.  Quite honestly several of my original blogs were quite good, almost brilliant, funny and journalistic.  It would be a shame to deviate from my original program.  I am left with the conclusion that I must abandoned this blog of gratitude and return to my former intent.  Never fear dear reader (and there is only one) I shall return.

Gratitude blog January 11, 2014

Today I am grateful for so many things. I am grateful for those great Americans who established our constitution and the great Americans who have served to protect our way of life.  I am grateful for life and the factors that brought my wife into my life.  On another level I am grateful for remote control and the mute button.  Modern medicine is a gift for which we should all be grateful.  My warm home and the social benefits won for me are things for which there are not enough words to express my gratitude.