I'm thankful for Guitar Tricks. It does a fabulous job of breaking it all down for a newbie.
I'm thankful my mother made me take piano lessons as a child. I wasn't happy with it then, as I wanted to play guitar! I still enjoy playing the piano, though, and I read music well (something it seems a lot of my guitar-playing friends through the years have struggled with).
I'm thankful for the people who have given me musical instruments through the years when I couldn't afford them on my own, allowing me to continue to play music (the friend of my mothers who gave me a piano, my ex-husband's grandmother who gave me an accordion, the friend who abandoned a guitar at my house).
I'm thankful for all the women who broke the mold and had the audacity to play the instruments they wanted to play. This may seem odd to younger people, but back in the day, girls in bands played acoustic guitar or nothing (well, tambourines were permissible and maybe keyboard!). It was a novelty that Karen Carpenter played drums. When the band Heart first recorded, every article about them marveled over the girl guitar player.
