We all have a lot to be thankful for even if we feel like we have to turn over rocks to discover just what.
For me, it's that I'm still here. It's that I've been married for 48 years to my first and only husband. It's that he is not a man bent on bad behavior. It's that I have a wonderful home, more than enough food on the table and friends, really good friends, that date back to my childhood. It's that they, too, are still here!
It's that we still live in the best country in the world. We're going through a really tough patch right now but I believe common sense and love of country over self will win out in time. I remind myself I don't see the headlines in newspapers around the world, or how reporters report things that are in their national and local interest. I remind myself they too have similar problems with media overkill and political self serving.
We don't live under a dictatorship. Our military is not lurking on the sidelines waitng for an over- throw opportunity. Among those running the country there are good men and women and slowly but surely they are being heard and gaining a foothold.
We have become a vast nation harboring such massive differences in regional needs I think it's an amazing glue that keeps us together. I'm thankful for that.
Having traveled the world as well as this country, I'm thankful I was fortunate enough to be born here. Here, too, will I die. Just another person who has lived a life of mediocre accomplishment. I've tried to be a good person, a caring person and a tolerant person. I'm thankful that what I've been has been enough to enjoy what has been a wonderful, fulfilling life. Pretty much just a middle of the road type of person. I'm thankful, too, for those of far greater accomplishment who have used their talents to keep our homeland the best of the best. May they grow in numbers. I'll be thankful for that too.
That's pretty much me. Happy Thanksgiving.
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