I am grateful for all the creature comforts i’m fortunate enough to have.

Comfort is embarrassing to be thankful for. It feels unserious next to health or family, so it gets skipped.

But a hot shower on a cold morning is a genuinely astonishing arrangement — heated water, on demand, in a private room. Most people who ever lived would have filed that closer to magic than plumbing.

The good socks. The chair that fits your back. The blanket you fight someone over.

Small pleasures aren't a lesser category of good fortune. They're the ones you actually feel. Let one of them register today instead of passing through it on the way to something else.