As we approach a date in time - Thanksgiving - that most people share with family and friends, I think about people and things about which I am extremely grateful.
1. I'm more grateful than I can say about my beautiful daughter. She is growing up so incredibly quickly. This year she became a teenager. She makes me proud every time I look at her and think about her.
2. My siblings continue to be some of my best friends and I'm more grateful about their support and just existence than I could ever say.
3. I'm grateful for my many blessings that, I have to admit, I don't think about enough.
I was blessed to have had two wonderful parents who loved each other immensely and were each other's best friends.
I was blessed to have had enough to eat, enough shelter, enough love - in fact the love was overflowing - as I was growing up.
I was blessed to have been able to get a quality education, and to grow up with a love for learning which continues to be a passion.
I was blessed to have been given the foundation of a religion against which I could rebel, but then return to with a security which came from many years of experience and investigation.
I was blessed with good health and the ability to get health help when needed.
I was blessed to have gained a passion for reading which must have come from my parents' collection of eclectic and wonderful books.
My list of blessings could go on and on, and probably the list should continue, but ...suffice it to say I was truly blessed,... and I am truly grateful. Happy Thanksgiving!
