This week in the USA, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving. Some people think it’s a holiday where we fill out gratitude cards and tell people how much we appreciate them. But let’s be honest: most of us are just eating pumpkin pie and watching monstrous cartoon balloons drift over New York City like inflatable kaiju.

But because giving thanks should be part of the ritual, somewhere between the cranberry sauce blob and someone pretending they “love” Aunt Debra’s marshmallow casserole, we wanted to dedicate this email to you. (AKA the "God of All Things Email", "Chaos Coordinator", "Chief Email Rainmaker", or whatever alter ego you woke up with today). We see you.

Thanks for reading this deeply weird newsletter of ours. Thanks for sending emails that don’t make people violently close their laptops. Thanks for treating your subscribers like actual humans and not bags of dirty money.

And hey, gratitude doesn’t have to die the moment that vegetarian turducken becomes a fridge science experiment. You can ride that emotional high all. year. long.

So here’s a glorious cornucopia of “thank you” emails to keep your appreciation muscle limber. Grab a slice of pie, warm your heart, and get ready to thank people so hard they feel it in their spam folders.

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Thanks for reading and learning since you joined on 2023-11-02!

- Mike and the rest of the RGE team.

Four cities. Multiple reasons to get out of the house.