#030 Happy Thanksgiving

The most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who takes time to read my stories on a regular or semi-regular basis. Life can get busy without us realizing just how busy we are. Etching out a few minutes a week to slow down can sometime be a challenge these days. So thank you for spending a few minutes a week with me.

I hope everyone is doing well and will find themselves surrounded by family and friends on this day of thanks.

Let us not forget those who have no where to go this year, those who are still cautious about gathering in groups, those who are in the hospital, first responders who watch over our communities, those who are deployed around the world, and those who watch over the safety of our country here at home.

As we sit in the company of family and friends we notice empty spaces where our loved ones once sat. We can still hear The sounds of their laughter. We remember the foundations they helped build in the family’s traditions.

Sometime we can’t make it back to our families and the old traditions so we create a few of our own. Becky and I live far from our families and can’t make it back for every holiday. We instead invite a few people who have nowhere to go or no one else to gather with over to our house for Thanksgiving dinner. Sometimes people show up, sometimes they don’t.

Back in our old town we began a Christmas Eve dinner tradition called The Dinner for Misfit Toys. Friends whose families either lived too far away or they simply didn’t have family who gathered would drop in for dinner, games, and maybe a Christmas cartoon or movie. Since my son went to his other home on Christmas Eve every year, we very much fit the qualification for misfits. We thought we’d carry on a similar tradition for Thanksgiving in our current town.

We need to always be thankful for what we have and be mindful of those who have little.

Thank you for taking time to visit with me today. I am more thankful for that than you know. My blog has been around about three months now. Though my readers are few right now, with hopes of growing each month, I will always write like I’m sitting on a log looking across a fire pit, deep in the woods, telling my story to one person—

you.