To one and all! This is the time to count my blessings, which is what I will do. I say this during what is a challenging time, since as a senior blogger, this is not the world I imagined, seen through the lens of HIS vision of darkness, and those people and institutions he and his team have decided are irrelevant. They are relevant to me, so I am blessed to be a woman with strong convictions, married to a man who has equally strong convictions. We are both figuring out how to negotiate this landscape, and what we will do.
I am lucky to have friends and family, like-minded people, who understand this quagmire, so I need not explain why I am feeling the joy of the season, but some sorrow, too. They feel it. As my friends have said, "One can't live in a bubble."
I am glad and feel blessed to know I am not alone in wanting a better world, where health, safety, education, compassion, empathy and humanity are paramount. I am appreciative that we--my friends-- share so many values, and are honest and authentic in the way we appraoch the world. We strongly believe in separation of Church and State. We don't believe that lying and hyperbole is any way to run a country. Another friend said, "You can't change the ugly choices that this adminstration has made, but you can work on one or two pet causes, and do whatever you can do." I will and will do so with my husband by my side.
I revel in my children and grandchildren, their choices in partners, the children they are raising, the times we celebrate together. Thus, I celebrate today with Amanda's folks and the delcious food I know Amanda and Craig will prepare, and when we fill out our piece of paper, "What are you thankful for?" my answer will be "For all of this! For all of you!" This includes the ability to try to make what is not good better.
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