I have lived long enough. My way of life
Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf...
Well, I'm not sure that I'm as gloomy as poor Macbeth was when he gets to this part of the play, but certainly I've lived the last several weeks in "the sere, the yellow leaf," and with lots and lots and lots of the latter falling here in Cephiro (and it raining too hard to make much headway raking) and the former seen everywhere along the interminable commute north to my campus, I felt it was high time to do an autumn/Thanksgiving makeover in yellow, gold, red, and brown.
But there is lots to be thankful for. First, getting under 20 weeks to retirement. Second, two very tight US House of Reps racing both finally falling on the right side: 1. Kanjorski near my campus, who prevailed over a contender who made a reputation for blaming the rotting infrastructure of his city on Evil Hispanic Others and using their threat to do nothing but sing "God Bless America" as loudly as he could while buzzards circled and chickens came home to roost. 2. Kratovil, who won a very MKR-tinged victory here in Cephiro over a compulsive liar whose motto was "Liberal Policies Never Work!" (Y'know, like Social Security, the Pell Grants, Family and Health Leave, etc. etc.) Sensei's anime-hating but Umiesque wife made hundreds of calls in this cause and finally hobbled into the voting place on a walker, as she's still recovering from her knee replacement last month.
And of course, Change, and Sunrise, and Tears on faces, Black and White.
So I decided to make my "Thanksgiving" Quirky Gallery Tour into a way of offering thanks to many people who helped get me started in animation art collecting and have continued to show me courtesy, even in a hobby that is competitive by its very nature.
Some of these thanks are to people no longer actively with us; some are to people whose job is passing as I type (Sayonara and god-speed, Stephen!). And I know I had to bypass many others who ought to have been thanked. But I did recognize (in no special order): vapalla, alyssium, animanga (i.e., Yann), kacfrog711, anime jewell, cherry snow, Mandarake, Michael (of Michael's Cardcaptors), carkiechu, vamppire, drakonia, Ashleen Gayda (a GMU student of mine), vampyreshoujo, iriairi, rallihir, kamidake, Anime Museum, snakeskii, Animechaos, ecchi-mayo, Anime Asylum (i.e., Curt), and reithejelly.
An apologetic and sincere
thanks to people not in the list or gallery tour whom we both know deserve to be thanked as well.
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Sensei's words of wisdom. ^^
reithejelly, kamidake, alyssium, carkiechu, and some of the other regulars who don't realize they're being thanked.
