A toast

To family, friends, and church. To youth groups and campers. To good neighbors, bad neighbors, and people who do not want to be my neighbor. To dictionaries and grammar manuals and job security. To booze cruises and building rafts. To moonbows and snake churches and Sonic. To using all of the dish soap to slide down the grass and all of the PAM to slide down the snow. To laptops and coffee mugs and blogs and voting. To Internet videos. To questions and facts. To tailgates. To excuses to get together and the people who get together. To going to the other movie. To minor league sports and debates and reality television. To everyone reading this.

Happy New Year.