When I began writing the acknowledgement page for my new book, it was easy to think of the people I immediately wanted to acknowledge and give thanks to – my kids, my good friends, my obvious teachers, my editor and publisher. After the first draft, more names came to me – the scientists who laid the groundwork for what I was doing and even my high school chemistry teacher who provided me with my own beginning framework to becoming a scientist.
Yet in the following days, more names came to mind, in fact, I realized that I could probably write a whole chapter’s worth of people who influenced my life and my work. It was a moment of revelation, actually, that there are more people to thank for where we are in our lives, in our creations, than we might initially recognize.
If you were writing a book, who would you acknowledge and give thanks for? Even if you weren’t writing a book, who do you acknowledge?
