Lena Dunham Instagram – 1. Thankful for the silver hairs in my bangs- I never imagined I’d be old enough to find them. It feels like having outrun a bear (except I’ve never run anywhere- i outsat a bear and it got bored.) 2. Thankful that I can go into my mother’s bathroom and use her tweezers and her lotion and her cotton pads and sometimes her tooth brush, just like I could with both my grandmothers. Women sharing product is intimacy defined. 3. Thankful that I’ve fallen back in love with writing. Passion became obligation and I waited and it became passion again. (I’m told this is the same idea behind very long marriages.) 4. Thankful for the medical experts who guide me so that my body can do much of what I ask it to, and the people who understand when it can’t. 5. Thankful to know the power and also the limits of ambition, and that my love language is “a very hard project that is slow to yield results.” 6. Thankful for cohabitation, collaboration and reiteration. All the -ations (even procrastination, which has its place.) 7. Thankful that animals always have to get up in the morning, so I do too. 8. Thankful that every year I trust myself more and trust common wisdom less. (Highly recommend!) 9. Thankful to all the women I’ve eaten dinner with and all the ones who have let me cancel plans. You know who you are. 10. Thankful for all of you- your words, your time, your “savage reads” and “piping hot tea” and “slays” and “iconic lewks” and whatever the internet words for brilliance and eccentricity are. 11. Thankful for Dateline. Keith Morrison is my daddy and also my son. Viral Reels in Texas