Time off. Time to go. To Buffalo. I hear there's snow! Going to Buffalo to see old friends and give thanks together over turkey and wondrous other such tasties.
Participating in my first Thanksgiving dinner over 17 years ago, I could not believe the beautiful autumn colors of foods that were presented at the table. It was such a different sort of dinner for me and I especially loved how everyone gave thanks, personally, intimately. Oh my and the pies! Oh, the pies! One summer Sally taught me how to make strawberry-rhubarb pies and I almost became expert at making them ... just for that summer.
T. and I will drive up through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to New York State and our old home-town that was home for 17 years. We have not been back together since December. Winter creeps in today with gray, cold, windy, snowy weather ... candles lit, music blaring, nag champa wafting through the house as I pack our bags for the trip and prepare cats for Leanne's kind, careful companionship these coming days ...
And I give thanks for ...
... Family and Friends old and new, far and near, real and virtual ...
... J.R.'s new job ...
... Bob the therapist who opened doors and gave me options ...
... a year of openings: my heart, new journeys and adventures, challenges, caves, the lotus flower petal by petal, butterfly wings ...
... opossum, fox, little dying chipmunk, deer in the headlights surviving ... surviving the semester ...
... my blog, your blogs, blogging ...
Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate. Be back Sunday.
Until then, I carry you with me ...
Update:
Jack sent me this (he knew I would appreciate it and probably thinks some of you will too). It is not an easy-read but I think it a must-read even as we are in the throes of giving thanks. Thank you, Jack.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Tamar! Don't we all have too, too much to be thankful for? I sometimes wonder why we complain at all (except for injustices, of course). Have a safe journey.
Posted by: MaryB | November 22, 2005 at 09:40 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to you too Tamar. The description you convey of what lies ahead for you in the next few days colors my anticipation of the holidays like no other! Autumnal bliss, family, appreciation for life, and pies,pies,pies!!!!!!!!
Strawberry Rhubarb! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Have a safe a wondrous holiday!
Dan
Posted by: dan ramirez | November 22, 2005 at 09:41 AM
Happy Thanksgiving Tamar. Have a wonderful time and see you soon!
Posted by: Jean | November 22, 2005 at 10:19 AM
I'll take an order of strawberry-rhubarb pie and some autumn leaves please. It is very HOT here this week and doesn't feel like autumn at all. Not that I'm complaining.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to my favorite Rhodesian-Zimbabwean-Israeli-American.
Posted by: Danny | November 22, 2005 at 10:42 AM
happy turkey day to you tamar!
Posted by: fp | November 22, 2005 at 02:13 PM
Shuffling off to Buffalo, eh?
Have a good thznksgiving!
Posted by: Joel Sax | November 22, 2005 at 02:54 PM
Have a safe trip and great holiday Tamar.
Posted by: nappy40 | November 22, 2005 at 04:02 PM
Have a blessed Thanksgiving in Buffalo. I visited a week there a few summers ago and thought the area was beautiful. Enjoy the snow--remarkably sunny and warm here in So Cal.
Posted by: Fran | November 22, 2005 at 05:52 PM
Strawberry-rhubarb is one of my favorites. Unfortunately nobody in the South ever heard of it. Send me some!
Safe trip, healthy and happy Thanksgiving, Tamar.
Posted by: Winston | November 22, 2005 at 09:08 PM
Same to you, Tamarika.. Wish I was having one (or more) of those pies. No thanksgiving holiday over here but I might just cook up one anyway.
Posted by: Natalie | November 22, 2005 at 09:16 PM