It’s Thanksgiving week and I’m busy finishing up projects at home and work before jumping in the car with the wife and kids and heading for the family gathering a good ten hours away.
As I reflect on the things I’m thankful for, I’ve got something new to add to my list this year: those of you who have made it a point to visit here regularly.
Yes, I write this blog to amuse and test myself, buy I appreciate your interest and try to picture you in my mind on those days when it would be easier not to post. I want to have something (hopefully) interesting here each time you look in. As such, I don’t want to let this blog “go dark” in the coming week while I’m traveling and enjoying my family, so I’ve collected a few past posts that you may or may not have seen that illustrate the things I’m thankful for, and scheduled them to appear over the next few days for any of you who take the time from your own obligations and celebrations to stop by.
Each day will have a different them. Today’s theme: I am thankful for health.
Night in the Emergency Room
Of Migraines and the Fear of Man
From blogger Ron Franscel @ http://underthenews.blogspot.com …
It has been a tradition in my family — maybe in many families — to go around the Thanksgiving table and ask everybody: What are you thankful for?
One Thanksgiving when my children were very young, we began with me. I was thankful for my family, for being together, for the time we had, and other patriarchal oratory. My wife was thankful for similar things. My daughter, maybe 8 at the time, added her lengthy list of friends and possessions.
Then we came to Matt, only 4. He was still thinking, but soon it dawned on him, this thing he was most thankful for in his so-far short life.
“Handles,” he said.
I gotta hand it to him: It never occurred to me to be thankful for handles, even though I am regularly thankful for handles. And knobs, rails, hinges, shelves, screw caps, cup-holders, envelopes, sandwich bags, can openers, lids, screwdrivers, soap dishes, buttons, rubber bands, remote controls, cardboard boxes, paper clips … all kinds of stuff I typically don’t take time to appreciate. But I guarantee there’s usually a string of choice words when they’re missing!
So … don’t forget to be thankful for the little things.
And have a Happy Thanksgiving!