\u201cIt puts it all in perspective doesn\u2019t it.\u201d <\/p>\n
A friend told me this as we swapped stories about loved ones dealing with health issues. How it can be tough and overwhelming. Draining. How you can lose sight of how good you\u2019ve had it. How you\u2019re never quite cognizant of all you should be thankful for. <\/p>\n
At least not all year. Usually on a day dressed with turkey and family gathered around, like the one we just had. But why not ALL year? That\u2019s the lesson I\u2019ve learned from helping my mother through her medial problems the past several months \u2014 take nothing for granted. Appreciate simple moments. Don\u2019t let the little stuff eat at you. Always give thanks for what you have. Put it all in perspective. <\/p>\n
So, three days after our \u201cofficial\u201d Thanksgiving, it\u2019s not too late to take stock and give a little more thanks. Call it is a Thanksgiving Day resolution to do it all year.
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For my daughter. She won a school award for fairness a month or two ago. Fairness! I was so proud. More so than if she came home with a Young Einstein award or some ingenious plan for renewable energy scribbled in her spiral-bound notebook. I thought about this the other day while talking about childhood bullying. How pervasive a problem it has become, or always has been. It made me think back to that award, and to what fairness really means. What a special trait to have. Couldn\u2019t we all use more of it? I know I can. So I\u2019m thankful she has it. <\/p>\n
For my wife. Because she puts up with me. And while I might seem like a simple, easy-going fella\u2019, I am actually a moody, complicated, under-appreciating so-and-so who makes far too many sarcastic wisecracks at her expense. They\u2019re dumbcracks. And yet, she finds a way to see through them \u2014 to find some inner glimmer of hope for me. Something rewarding or worthy or at least bearable. Shoot, I want to send me packing to the curb some days. But she\u2019s more patient and forgiving. And I\u2019m thankful for that. <\/p>\n
For life. Even though it seems filled up with problems and burdens and little hiccups strategically placed to hit us where it hurts, there\u2019s always a bright side. More good than bad. Something to be thankful for. Maybe that\u2019s perspective. Or pulling the wool over my eyes. But I\u2019m thankful for it. <\/p>\n
Three days later and I\u2019m still giving thanks. Or trying to. That\u2019s my Thanksgiving resolution, and my optimistic hope for the whole year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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