Thanksgiving Thoughts

With news via TV of the horror in India in the back ground I also type to add my greetings for Thanksgiving. Tragedy does not take a holiday- tragedy from terrorists is especially horrible.

I have long loved this holiday which seems to be more and more crowded out by Christmas every year. I remember the day of no stores being open on Thanksgiving (for that matter, not on Sundays, either) and now stores are open today with customers who just can’t seem to go a day without shopping. Earlier this week I shopped at the local Target store. The young woman checking out my items said she had to report for work at 5:45 AM on Friday for the store to open at 6 A.M. She said she dreaded the day after Thanksgiving because “customers are mean.” Sad but surely true.

I asked the clerk if she had ever read Laura Ingalls Wilder Books- she said yes. We briefly talked about how happy Mary and Laura were at Christmas to have a piece of candy and a homemade doll and some what I would call fake apple pie made out of crackers. (Long time since I read Little House on the Prairie books, so this is my memory of their Christmas…) Not that we ever will go back to those days but these days are filled with excess. Some balance would be nice….

So, I am cooking a meal for two. Thankful that I have a warm home, a husband who eats my cooking, and then later this afternoon have a job to go to. There must be many people like me who have jobs to do on Thanksgiving. In my case, illness does not take a holiday.

Will close my rambling post with this message:

“Warm memories, simple pleasures, a happy heart-

may these be yours at Thanksgiving and always.”