Kevin's Watch

Fist and Faith wrote:Excellent picture, sarge! Is that your own?

a real life enactment of the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving meal from the cartoon.

I'm going to bump this post.

I have had/lived through/enjoyed every version of Thanksgiving that anyone could imagine in my lifetime. As a child they were huge and stressful to everyone, with 30 and 40 people sitting around 2 and 3 tables, in my 20's Thanksgiving was beer and turkey with my college buds, in my 30's Thanksgiving was merengue and pernil (pork shoulder) with my Puerto Rican friends until dawn, in my 40's was with my foster children and a clan of their friends, in my 50's I worked and served dinner at the shelter every Thanksgiving. So here I am, the last year of my 50's with no turkey madness, no family madness, just me and helldog. And it is ok. It is a time to reflect and appreciate, a time to put things in perspective. It is a time to appreciate where I am and who I am. It is a time to appreciate that I survived the last many years, that I valued my own life enough to save it. That I am sober and face my life with un-numbed, that I have some wonderful new friends, and a few good old friends, that I have room in my life (and heart) to face a new future, whatever that might be. I think the next phase of my life will be an adventure and I am grateful to have the chance to live it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Happy Thanksgiving to you to, lorin!

Orlion wrote:Happy Thanksgiving to you to, lorin!

Thank you so much, my friend!

Happy Turkey day to all.

Happy post-Turkey Day, guys. We had a lovely, calm meal, although the nephew was kind of lost. Batty and Magickmaker kept forgetting to explain the inside jokes to him.... I did insist that someone deliver their grandmother's line at the end of the meal, and Magickmaker obliged: "That was a delicate sufficiency."

lorin wrote:It is a time to appreciate that I survived the last many years, that I valued my own life enough to save it. That I am sober and face my life with un-numbed, that I have some wonderful new friends, and a few good old friends, that I have room in my life (and heart) to face a new future, whatever that might be. I think the next phase of my life will be an adventure and I am grateful to have the chance to live it.

Joy to you!

aliantha wrote:I did insist that someone deliver their grandmother's line at the end of the meal, and Magickmaker obliged: "That was a delicate sufficiency."

you funny people.

I am thankful for the sunshine and the trees and the sky.

I am thankful for how ridiculously loved I am; something I think I only begin to perceive, in bits and pieces.

I am thankful for so many words that I've gotten to hear and read this last year:

• rebukes given me with courage,
  encouragements spoken to me in hope,
  sermons brought forth with passion,
  books written with wisdom,
  jokes shared with merriment,
  friends' stories told from their very hearts.

And I am thankful for the text-based computer game "Angband," to which I am not currently addicted.

We went to Indiana where my hubby's family on his mom's side comes together.
I am glad we've been able to get there most years lately.

Linna Heartlistener wrote:And I am thankful for the text-based computer game "Angband," to which I am not currently addicted.

Uh-huh.

Where in Indiana?

aliantha wrote:

Linna Heartlistener wrote:And I am thankful for the text-based computer game "Angband," to which I am not currently addicted.

Uh-huh.

My kid's always bothering me... he's all like "mommmmy, pleeeeaaaze play some Angband and let me watch?"

ali wrote:Where in Indiana?

Southern Indiana, near the IL/IN border.

Ah, gotcha. I grew up in NW Indiana and went to college in Bloomington.