Good news! This is a 100 percent, handcrafted, handmade, human-produced poem. I am not a robot!

Notice the skips and starts, the not-sures and maybes? That’s me, all me. It’s Thankful Thursday and I’m grateful to be writing with my own hands and body and mind.

And you? What are you making by hand and by heart? The poem that pulses, the painting that screams? All the agony and awe — that’s what I want.

On this Thankful Thursday, I pause in gratitude for the raw and real, the toil and beauty of a handmade life.

What are you thankful for today?