A Day to Reflect and Give Thanks

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Happy Thanksgiving Day from Northwest Arkansas, everyone.

Today is the day to give thanks for what we all have. I have reasons to be thankful this year, just like in any year. Sometimes I have to stop and think about them all and then take stock in what I have. I am thankful for a job that provides me and girlnamedsammi with the roof over our heads and food to eat. Without this investment in my life I could not do the impossible mission that I am trying to accomplish. Without it, it is only a far away dream.

I am thankful for my friends, girlnamedsammithe_jimmy_jameshoratio09achan_hiarusa, all of their friends and the one who connected me to all of them one night, idlewatcher. Without her, none of these people would have ever known me and I them. I am thankful for my health and the ability to still do things that would sideline others.

Each one of us has something they can be thankful for, even if you don’t think you really do. I know that from reading other journals that there are countless others that do not have it as well as I would like them to have it. This is a time of year that is supposed to mean something to family and friends and yet there are always stories of the family torn apart by one thing or another. Most often it is stubborn miscommunication. Because of the decisions that we make, some of us have risked and lost family, those who where supposed to be and stay a part of us, forever. I hurts me know and talk to several of these people and I have the honor of calling you all “friends” that I have met in the course of my two year journey. My prayers are with you this day as I hope you and your family’s can find some sort of healing and comfort.


I know what it is like to loose a family. Before I started I lost a spouse of 15 years and two of three adopted sons. The oldest just started talking to me again just this year. I have 8 grand-kids and only three of them know me. I have an older brother that still refuses to talk to me and with the thought of my father dying soon of cancer does not bode well as I will have to face this person at the funeral.

But hose things I try to put aside for the day as I have the house to myself. Sammi and Jimmy have gone to Little Rock to be with their families for Thanksgiving and should be back sometime tomorrow. I hope their journey down and back is a safe one and theythings and try to get some files retrieved from her old hard drive that became inoperable a while back.

Looking around at this empty place I have to remind my self that I have a wealth of things to be thankful for. Sometimes I just can’t find them for the fog that sometimes comes into my life. Every one of you has something to be thankful for, through all the cynicism that some of you have and the bitterness, there is something that you can stop, reflect on and thank the almighty that you are still a part of this human race.

A hearty Happy Thanksgiving to you all.