Thursday, November 25, 2004

Thanksgiving...

Well its that wonderful time of the year. The time when holidays come as often as cold mornings and food is as plentiful as the chills that run down your spine. Today is the day that we traditionally call Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving has never really been a big deal to me. My family has never had a major tradition involving this day. Well, maybe we did when Mom was alive but I don't really remember. I know I miss her. I know my sister has a hard time around this time of the year. I am sure everybody else deals with it too.

Since there is no tradition for me to miss, I get to forge ahead with my own tradition. I guess that is what you call what me and Resa do. Sometimes we go somewhere (my dads/her parents) and sometimes we stay home and cook ourselves. I like it when we do that. I enjoy the time together and I enjoy knowing that I am doing what my Mom and Dad always did when I was little.

I got the bird cooking.....Resa is cooking the other stuff....so we are on our way to a nice Thanksgiving meal.

I hope all of you out there have a good one and God bless.......

2 comments:

Steve F. said...

When I was living in Kansas (765 miles from my two sisters), I would only get home for their birthday in July and Christmas break. So I was mostly in the KC area for Thanksgiving day.

That meant, most often, that I was a guest at someone's family gathering - often my very good friends from church. But a couple times, I resolved to have a separate Thanksgiving, and invite others (who didn't have a church home or community) to join me. It frequently ended up being folks newly sober, whose families weren't quite ready to accept them back just yet.

We jokingly called these gatherings "the widows and orphans' Thanksgiving," and they were some of the most memorable meals I have cooked. The blessing was that for many of them, the food they'd most been used to was in treatment or in jail - so their expectations of me were pretty low (and it was easy to be a star!). But it also was important that very few of them were giving thanks for iPods, or their new Lexus, or their hot girl- or boy-friend. They were grateful, as one friend of mine used to say, to be "sunny-side-up, suckin' air, sober, and bi-laterally symmetrical."

It put a whole new spin on "giving thanks" - one that I've never forgotten.

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