Spent early Thanksgiving morning in some quiet time thinking about how thankful I am for family.

I realized that my social network feels so much like family. I desire to spend time more time today sharing and finding out what they are doing, online. I have not joined many online conversations today in order to focus during the couple hours I have to spend "catching up" on emails, Facebook comments and to finally set up Posterous.

I want to thank a couple people who may not realize how their influence affected this Thanksgiving Day.

• Thank you, Patricia Skinner of Well Written Words for taking the time to comment on my post, "Swamped - Coming up to Breathe."
• Alan Bleiweiss of Search Marketing Wisdom tweeted out something to which I really wanted to yell "DITTOS!"

Things I'm grateful 4: Twitter DM - allows me to connect on a more personal level with some great twits!

Thank you to friends who put me on their Posterous reading list even when I had a blank page, no content and no avatar photo! Thank you for trusting, in advance, that you'd want to read my ponderings on Posterous ...

• Jon Henshaw on Posterous
• Monica Wright on Posterous

There are many additional people in my social networrks whom I've never met as well as many whom I've enjoyed great times with in-person. You are part of my stream, my daily thoughts and conversations. Thank you for being part of my family!

Now it's time for a good ride and then time with offline family!