Hello, bloggers, and Happy Thanksgiving!

In our family, we always look forward to Thanksgiving.  It’s not as hectic a time as Christmas.  It seems a calmer, more family-friendly holiday.  Christmas has become so commercialized, and everybody’s running around like crazy people buying gifts!

For Thanksgiving, we always have an old-fashioned farmhouse gathering, where we all assemble up at the farm in Wisconsin and get time to see everybody and enjoy each other’s company.

It’s not just a one-day event.  People are coming and going for three or four days!  And we’re all either under one roof or within hailing distance of one another.

In this time of economic strife, we may think we have to look very far to find anything to be thankful for.  But because I spent the first part of my life working in the funeral business, I’m always thankful first and foremost that I’m walking above the ground rather than lying beneath it—and that all of the family is still here, they’re all proceeding in their own directions, and they’re able to come together, despite our busy lives, and spend a lot of time with each other.

No matter what’s going on in the world that makes us uneasy and puts us in a bad mood, I always try to look at the glass as half-full.

This is the time to give thanks, to renew our traditions, and to be grateful that we’re all together and marching in whatever direction we’re marching, meeting in the center.

So we’ll meet and eat and go on our way, and where we stop, nobody knows!

Matt