I am thankful for my health and success.

You have probably not thought about your left knee today, which is its own kind of good news. Health is easiest to notice in its absence. Three days of a bad throat and you will think about swallowing forty times an hour.

Whatever is holding today has been holding like that. Not all of it, maybe. Most bodies come with a list. But something in there is doing its work unsupervised while your attention is elsewhere entirely.

Success has the same shape. The steady parts of a life go unmentioned, because steady things generate no news, and news is what you end up describing when somebody asks how you have been.