We’re thankful for Maine and its coastline and pines,
for charming small towns with their crooked old signs,
for neighbors who wave as we pass on the street,
and businesses built on a handshake – not heat.
We’re grateful for clients who send things on time,
for clarity arriving in moments sublime,
for early approvals (a beautiful sight),
and those magic ideas that land just right.
We cherish the grit that this state seems to teach,
the roll-up-your-sleeves, “we’ll get there,” kind of reach.
For makers at markets with tables stacked high,
and the fearless folks dreaming the limits the sky.
We’re thankful for sparks found in odd little places –
in notebooks, on napkins, in parking-lot spaces.
For ideas that sneak in while driving back home,
or show up at last when given the room.
We honor the partners who show up each day,
who trust us with stories they want to convey.
For the builders, the dreamers, the people who start,
with nothing but vision and a determined good heart.
So here’s to the season, the craft, and the crew –
to the work we create and the people like you.
May gratitude linger in all that you do,
and may good ideas find their way to you, too.
by Noelle Castle