I have a very lot to be thankful for. But this Thanksgiving Day, I am most thankful for the ordinary. My sister, Mary, poetically summed this up the other day:
there is no blessing that I seek
no question i would ask,
i am grateful for the gift
of an ordinary life.
I cannot add a thing to that sentiment. Mary is sure the poet and the writer in the family.
This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the ordinary in my life, but the people in it are anything but ordinary: family, friends, coworkers–all wonderful and influential in my life. And there are things: work, home, food, gardening, pets, shopping…. so many more…. ordinary to many, but again, special to me.
I am thankful this Thanksgiving, very Thankful. Especially for the ordinary….