I felt a great sense of gratitude Thanksgiving night as Robert and I put up our traditional Travel Tree, gratitude for the beautiful life of Georgia native and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
Here’s a wonderful article about Rosalynn’s beautiful life:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/28/opinions/remembering-rosalynn-carter-eizenstat?cid=ios_app
So a while back, I did a short series of T-shirt Tuesdays with cool wildlife T-shirts I saw at the Savannah Wildlife Refuge gift shop.
Recently we went back, and I snapped a few more photos. (With a few folks staring at me for pulling the T-shirts off the racks and positioning them for my photo op.)
Today … the Sensational Sea Turtle
Here’s a cute cousin of the sea turtle we saw at Hunting Island State Park in SC …
May we all think long term and age gracefully.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. This incredible Christmas Cactus in the hallway of our local YMCA.
2. Continuing our tradition of putting up our Travel Tree on Thanksgiving night.
Each ornament is from somewhere we have visited over the years.
3. The ability to smell. Especially during the holiday season!
4. Having a cozy spot to read and touch toes with HR.
5. Pretty blossoms reaching down to pose for photos with Robert.
May you find a cozy spot to enjoy this weekend.
Here’s a post from over a decade ago, starring my young grandson (five at the time), Daniel.
I picked up Grandson Daniel (5) from school yesterday, and, hopping into his back seat, he excitedly showed me his just-completed Turkey Basket (well, that’s what he called it anyway).
As I soon learned, the turkey project was two-fold: first the cute little construction paper turkey itself. But as you can see in the pictures below, the front housed a nifty envelope (basket?) which held little gratitude or thanksgiving cards.
For each note, Daniel and his classmates completed the statement “I am thankful for ____ because …” for their family members.
What a joy! Little ones expressing their thankfulness so sincerely. Below Daniel explains to me that his plan for Thanksgiving Day consists of waiting till “all the guests” have eaten “some of their turkey” and then “hand out the slips.”
And he did just that–for all fourteen of the folks at the table. His mom helped him with some of the spelling, but the sentiments were exclusively his.
Here’s mine:
“I am thankful for Abu (that’s me) because he helps with decorations.”
(Okay, maybe that sounds a bit strange, but the day before, we had decorated for Thanksgiving with some outdoor lights. And a month earlier we had carved two jack o’ lanterns.)
What Thanksgiving Joy! We really all do have so very much to put in our Turkey Baskets.
[For more on “Abu” see “My Favorite Word Is Abu!” post.]
Joyful Thanksgiving from our Table to Yours!
(Okay, maybe that’s not our table. But still)
Cranberry-time!
(Is that one word?)
“PEACE”
Yet the Evil Right, led by extremists such as House Speaker Mike Johnson, wants to eradicate this Peaceful Joy.
May their anti-God, anti-democracy, anti-patriot, anti-freedom, anti-human voice be silenced.
So that we can rest, for a while, in the Sheep Meadow.
So a while back, I did a short series of T-shirt Tuesdays with cool wildlife T-shirts I saw at the Savannah Wildlife Refuge gift shop.
Recently we went back, and I snapped a few more photos. (With a few folks staring at me for pulling the T-shirts off the racks and positioning them for my photo op.)
Today … the Beautiful Butterfly.
Let’s try to get out of our cocoons today.
NealEnJoy 