I’m bringing you my thoughts and ramblings a bit early this week due to the US Thanksgiving holiday. My hope is to give you something to read, think about, or at least use as an excuse to get away if need be during the festivities.
Thanksgiving has been an odd holiday for me since I’ve been an adult. For a number of years, my mother would host everyone in our family on the Sunday before, so as not to interfere with any individual plans we made. Thoughtful, I thought. But often, as I got older, that left me with no plans on the day itself, unless I did something in my home.
It’s been many years since I’ve been to my mother’s for any holiday, but we’ve begun to reconnect somewhat this year and I have to admit, I was looking forward to seeing her in person and spending some time together. The COVID pandemic put a kabash on that idea.
Other plans we made for tomorrow have fizzled out as well and I’m left feeling a bit sad about it. As we’ve already gone through our grocery budget for the month, there wasn’t a way for us to just decide to do something here. Instead, we’re treating it like any other day.
Since I’ve been feeling down about it over the last week, I decided to try to reframe my thinking and instead, contemplate the things I have to be thankful for. I try to keep these things in mind on a regular basis, because Thanksgiving shouldn’t be the only day we count our blessings.
So, thank you. Each and every one of you. By taking the time to read my words, you help me take another step in my journey. You help make it possible for me to continue to work from home and pour everything I have into making my content, whether it’s here, Medium, YouTube, or wherever, the best it can be. This is my full-time job, alongside being a parent, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be able to do it.
I hope if you celebrate Thanksgiving, you have the best day possible and stay safe.
This Week’s Top Articles:
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My collaborative YouTube channel with the lovely Jaye Wilde has it’s first episode live today. Check it out here, and be sure to like and subscribe. We have so many awesome things planned for the future. I hope you’ll come along for the ride.
You can always buy me a coffee if you’d like to support my ongoing work. I’m currently in talks with Bad Dragon to qualify for their reviewer program, so if that happens (fingers crossed), I’ll change the goal on Kofi to something else.
xoxo
Demeter