Thanksgiving Eve

Thanksgiving eve is one of my favorite days of the year.  It marks the start of my favorite time of year. It leads right into the Christmas season which for me will start tomorrow just a few minutes before that jolly bearded fat man comes riding into town...  Ray Thomas.  In his 1975 Pontiac, with a bottle of Old Turkey.  A bushy white beard.

Who is Ray Thomas you might ask?  Well, he doesn't exist.  I just wanted to throw you off guard.

It's really Santa Claus that comes riding into town.  Right there at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.  Up there in his sleigh.  Inviting you to mortgage your house and shop, shop, shop and rack up those credit cards!

None of that for me.  I buy three presents for three people and that's it.  Over the past couple of years, I've been downsizing.  Cleaning out from under the bed, in the closet, in the basement, in garage.  You name a space and I've probably got a box of knickknacks that I've not looked at in 20 years stashed there.  And the sad part is I'm don't know what's in the boxes.  Most of them now are stacked in the garage where I've been weeding out a 50 plus years of stuff.  Happily I can report that the stack has shrunk.

Why is that we keep as much as we do?  The people who have a twisted pile of twist ties from loaves of bread in the kitchen drawer are saving them for what?  The shipping boxes people who might use them for what?  The stacks of papers.  Old catalogs.  That shell you picked up from somewhere sometime some place you went 35 years ago.

I'm thankful for not being one of those people.  I've moved and become one of those that sings let it go.  And I sometimes just sing it to annoy people.  Ya gotta make your own fun!

Thanksgiving is a time for being thankful.  And I am not throwing that away.  I'm thankful for good health.  A sound mind.  Creativity.  Imagination.  An adopted family that looks out for me on a daily basis.  I'm also thankful that I've moved away from the past.  It was fun, but I've got a lot of living to do and really want the room for new memories.

So, let' toast to the holiday season and be thankful we lived another day.  There's no use in fretting.  No use pushing or being pushed.  Just float along and laugh at it all.  That is my plan.  I'm thankful for so much.  And no one, absolutely not one person is going to take that those thanks away.

Happy Thanksgiving Eve everyone!

CSM