So this year Robert and I hosted our big ole modern family’s Thanksgiving Gathering at Skidaway Island State Park here in Savannah.
We rented one of their picnic shelters near the playground and prayed for good weather.
20 of us in all this year.
HR is the family photographer and can get very bossy when telling people where and how to sit or stand.
A joyful gathering.
I hope you had a meaningful and peaceful Thanksgiving Day.
This morning I Did what I Should Not Do—according to my husband, my therapist and even my pint-sized common sense. I started my Tuesday by scrolling (and scrolling) through online news. Why? Idk, but I’ll blame it on an out-of-my-daily-routine second cup of coffee.
Paraphrasing my three advisers: “Neal, how does it help you to be inundated with mainstream news, which is most often bad news?”
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A teeny sampling of what my caffeinated scrolling unearthed:
* Senseless deaths and injuries in the Wisconsin Christmas parade tragedy.
* Tucker Carlson calling Kyle Rittenhouse a “sweet kid.”
* A defense attorney in the Ahmaud Arbery case referencing in her closing statement Ahmaud’s “long dirty toenails.”
* The dangerously divisive hatred (hatred?!) in our divided political world today.
* Etc. Etc. Etc.
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What “got me out of the newsroom” (thank goodness!) was a quick trek to the frig for more creamer for that second cuppa and noticing what I had stuck on the refrigerator…
The overflowing harvest of the simple cornucopia somehow (note to self: yet another therapy topic) jarred me into remembering that not all is bad. Duh. And that I/we have so very much to be thankful for.
All of which, again, somehow brought to mind my favorite small-t thanksgiving song, Josh Groban’s rendition of “Thankful.” So I did a quick listen-to.
This non-newsworthy line stood out: “Sometimes we can’t see the joy that surrounds us.”
Here’s the song if you have a couple of minutes …
Who says two cups of coffee are bad for you?!
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