Andrea's Adventures in Binkyland

Thanksgiving 2002

Today is American Thanksgiving. I know I, personally, have a lot to be thankful for this year. I have :

• a beautiful, healthy new baby girl,
  
• a job that lets me be a good mother to her,
  
• a sweet and loving husband,
  
• a family of in-laws who care deeply about our lives,
  
• my own parents and brothers, who understand me and my need for independence,
  
• terrific friends who love even the sarcastic, catty side of me....
  

I know I have a lot to personally be thankful for. But the world seems more frightening every day. We have a government riddled with corporate agendas and an astonishing lack of concern for the environment. Violence persists in the Middle East, when a few years ago, it seemed that peace was coming as surely as sunrise. Rumors of violence scuttle here and there in my own country; and our government ris eacting to these whispered threats in ways that erode the very things that make our nation worth defending.

Today, we eat turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes, we watch parades and football, and perhaps some of us count our blessings. But many of us do not know how truly blessed we are.

Take a break, guys. Offer some gratitude to the universe that you live in the world where the stock market and the state of the economy are the important things, and not whether your harvest will get you through the winter or whether your family will be disappeared by the government while you sleep. Odds are you're luckier than you think.

My kitchen is: messy.

Posted by andrea at November 28, 2002 08:11 PM