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GRATITUDE

Posted by M*A on Monday, November 27, 2006 11:38:42 AM
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart"

Turkey Day is over.  Now begins Christmas.  How often will we hear the phrase "keep Christmas in your heart all year long"?  Personally, I try to keep Thanksgiving in my heart all year long. I must be truthful, sometimes it is not easy.   When my daughter....hereafter known as The Girl...and my son....always known as The Boy...were small, I put a sign on the fridge.  Thanksgiving Blessings...I am thankful for:  At first they were a bit shy about writing anything down.  But year after year the list went up.   Other family members added their thoughts as well as friends.  It is now tradition.  You can't eat Thanksgiving dinner until you write at least one thing you are thankful for.  I took the list down this morning to file it with previous years lists (because the Christmas wish list goes up soon...more on that later).  Some things we have been thankful for over the years are:

Tuesdays
Saturdays
That I am not a nerd...  The Girl, aimed at me
That I *am* a nerd, and proud of it....me aimed at The Girl
For my cool cousin Steve
Peanut Butter
Lego's
The '95 baseball season
Pens
Electricity and indoor plumbing
Babylon 5
Big Buck...the hunter in the family
The new millennium, the old millennium
Drums...The Boy
Sushi
LoTR and Peter Jackson
Paper towels
Cats
My job
Long underwear
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
George Bush
Swiffer
Our Soldiers, especially our adopted ones through Soldiers Angels
The park
Milblogs
Marconi
The Hubble Telescope
Artichoke dip
A good corkscrew
Google Images

There are always references to specific people and stories, incidents that have become family lore.  And books.  Usually, that is me.  Won't give you that list...waaay too long.  Tolkien is always there...are you surprised?  The other writer that is often on the list is Orson Scott Card.

I mention OSC today, because, tomorrow Radio Patriots will be interviewing him on their show at 3 p.m.  I am sooo looking forward to this.  Be there if you can.  Check out some of his books.  He is a wonderful writer.  Science fiction, fantasy, historical, biblical, theater...I'm tellin ya the man can write!  You might also want to look at The Ornery American.

Alrighty then...shifting into Christmas mode...and being thankful every minute of it...even as I start dragging all those boxes out of the attic. 


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Thanksgiving

Posted by M*A on Saturday, November 25, 2006 11:18:57 PM
Had some ideas of what I wanted to write about tonight.  That is until I came across this on my daily milblog read.  It speaks for itself.  War In The Sandbox 

Read Thanksgiving Eve.

"All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my Angel Mother"
Abraham Lincoln
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LITTLE BY LITTLE, ONE TRAVELS FAR

Posted by M*A on Friday, November 24, 2006 9:22:08 PM
I suppose in a manner of speaking this entry is pretty much crying "uncle".  Those who brought about this cry...you know who you are.  I'm crossing my fingers here, hoping that I have something of value to say, eventually.  Originally, this was going to be the Blue Moon Blog, mostly because it would be once in a blue moon that I would have the arrogance to write anything.  After long consideration, I came to the conclusion that I always seem to return to the same things again and again.  Familiar, comforting, safe...like Tolkien.  And so I thought, even Hobbits have adventures.  So....

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door....You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

I'm hoping it's not Mirkwood or the Lonely Mountain and certainly not Mordor.....stepping out.
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