STOP For your own Sake!
Happy Thanksgiving. It's that time of the year. The time of the year when we all wax poetic for a few minutes about our lives and then go about forgetting it and carying on with our busy schedules. I find this year though my introspective look is different. This year I find myself thinking of how it must be for others. You see I have done the "look in" thing. I am thankful and grateful for everything I have. My sisters(and their families) who I don't see enough, my brother(and his family) who I likewise don't see enough, my parents who I miss more than I ever thought I would. (More because there is so much I wished they could see and understand about me and my life...sigh... but those ships have sailed...) I am thankful for my life, wife, children, and extended family. I am truly blessed and very lucky - even if i do routinely grunt, bitch, and moan about all I don't have. But over the course of the past few years I have spent more and more time tr...