Thanksgiving, especially, should be a time to be with family and friends and to be grateful for all we have. If you have lost a child, a partner, a parent or a special friend, this may be a hard day for you. I know it is for me. My daughter, Jennifer, always called first thing on Thanksgiving morning with her special funny Thanksgiving song. I wish I had recorded "Gobble, Gobble Turkey." Jennifer had a wonderful sense of humor and we always laughed after she sang it for me. It has been a long six years since she died of breast cancer. I grieve with all those who have also lost someone special. They say it gets easier as the days and years pass. I have not found that to be true. I do try to do, as a wonderful psychologist taught me, to grieve for short times during a day and then move on to something else.
I think as Americans we are spoiled. We do have terrible violence from guns in this country, but hopefully some day Congress will have enough courage to defy the NRA and do something about it. For now the terrible effects of climate change in the U.S.have not becoming all encompassing, as they have in Puerto Rico, Texas, and the fires in Northern California. I am sure Thanksgiving must be a particularly hard day for those in areas where climate change has been so devastating. How the people who are trying to roll back all of the environmental regulations can live with themselves is beyond me. We are all going to pay a very high price for what they are doing. Perhaps as the ocean rises around Mar-a-Lago, Trump will see the light.
I hope Thanksgiving brings a few moments of joy to all of those who have had terrible problems and pain this year.
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