© 2019 Christy K
Robinson
May this season bring all the things that you not only receive from others,
but that you have the power to share:
love, health, peace, joy, prosperity.
You can share:
a compliment to a stranger,
listening without advising,
giving from your abundance,
giving your last two cents,
writing a business letter for a friend,
lending your muscles,
donating goods to charity,
helping the helpless,
carrying large items in your pickup truck,
donating blood if you're healthy,
babysitting kids (no charge) so a single parent can have free time,
preparing food for immigrants,
driving a friend to a medical appointment,
volunteering at your house of worship,
serving at a homeless shelter,
pulling weeds or babysitting pets...
We think of Thanksgiving, even more than Christmas or Easter, as a day for families. More people travel to be with family on Thanksgiving than any other holiday.
You have traditions, whether the specific foods you eat (no giblets--
ack!) on china or paper plates, hiking a scenic trail, watching sports,
going camping and RV-ing at the sand dunes, holding someone's new baby,
going through the newspaper ads for Black Friday deals, learning to
make your grandmother's best recipe... and especially, counting your
blessings and saying out loud what you're grateful for.ThanksGIVING is a way of life, far more than saying words about being grateful for your abundance, but paying forward some kindness and mercy to both loved ones and strangers. Thanksgiving is so much better when we're thanks-sharing.
"It is wired within us that when we care and nurture it affects our physiology in a very positive way," says neuroscientist James Doty. "That is the reward for caring." https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/17/460030338/be-kind-unwind-how-helping-others-can-help-keep-stress-in-check
One of many things I'm grateful for, is friends who treat me, a singleton, as family. You've come to my place or invited me to yours, not only on the Thanksgiving holiday, but throughout the year. I thank you, and I thank God for putting us in each others' lives.
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Want some Thanksgiving lore and humor to share at this year's celebrations?
Check out one of my history blogs at
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Christy K Robinson is author of
these books (click the colored title):
And of these sites:
Discovering
Love (inspiration and service)
Rooting
for Ancestors (history and genealogy)
William and Mary Barrett Dyer
(17th century culture and history of England and New England)
Editornado
[ed•i•tohr•NAY•doh] (Words. Communications. Book reviews.
Cartoons.)
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