2020 Thanksgiving Thoughts
This entry interrupts your “regularly scheduled” Seeking Peace and Joy Dictionary to bring you a special message—the more you buy the more you save...Oh wait that’s the message I’m hearing from the TV.
Seriously 2020 sucks and there is enough blame going around to choke a horse. Unfortunately it’s the gift horse and we have spent a lot of time looking it in the mouth.
By the way did you know that the saying “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” was related to the practice of looking at a horse’s teeth as an indicator of it’s health and age? So if you were buying a horse it was a good thing to look into it’s mouth, but considered very bad form to look a gift horse in the mouth and there you have it....
Back to 2020... which has tested the limits of those who value certainty and security. If you experience stress, PTSD, general anxiety, or are empathic this year has been like trying to sip from a fully cranked fire hose So if you feel the strain it ain’t a shame. And give me the beat boys and free my soul and t try to get lost in the rock and roll and don’t be afraid to drift away a bit.....
On the other hand it might be possible to find some gifts here. Like many of us have become aware of the work we put in on building routines and how much fuel these routines. Provide. On the other hand when the routines stop we get to feel the raw experiences again and understand just what “everyday” life feels like whether or not we have been paying attention. We have been able to find out how much the “water cooler” and happy hour connections really meant to us on a regular basis. We have found that some of us can work from home and some of us really need that as a sanctuary. We’ve discovered. That some folks will try to take advantage of us economically regardless of the product including toilet paper. The black market “White Cloud” really put a Sharmon-like squeeze on some folks. So these changes in life have strongly suggested a higher level of awareness. For some it has opened our eyes to the value of being grateful for little things and that is a real hammer in the building of the seeking peace and joy process.
So even in the crappiest parts of this year so far. There are some lessons to be thankful for and then there’s this...
We may be learning that none of us does really well alone and when we aren’t able to choose and own our connections with others and the world. I don’t think 300 expert sociologists could have devised a social isolation or political diversity experiment the likes of which we have experienced... and we should be thankful for the potential lessons even though the path forward isn’t very well lit in some places and will be harder to find than an aspirin in a blizzard at times. There’s a little something for every problem solver on your list so dig in.
If you went to a traditional catholic school you already know this...but nobody said every lesson was going to be fun....
Ok let’s get back to some “thanks”.stuff....
I looked at the number of views this blog has had in it’s two-year run and at the number of downloads for the related podcast. For the following I am incredibly grateful... Thank you all for sharing your time because
Some 17,800 people have viewed the blog
https://youtu.be/Jk2D4dofhPgthe podcast has been downloaded nearly 1800 times and in a staggering 29 countries on every continent except Antarctica. (I guess I had better include penguins and insulated underwear in the title someone in the next year or so...
Seriously I thank you all for listening, reading and more than that stopping just a second to think about a few things. To use a technical phrase about audience engagement ..
“I’m freaking blown away dude.” I thank each of you....
So I am going to wrap up with a link to a song and YouTube video...The lyrics are in the description...spoiler alert I posted this on facebook already and I said you didn’t need to listen to the song if you read the lyrics that are listed in the description. You do however, have to know that I appreciate nearly all of you more than you will know...especially because like 2020 I stink at expressing my thanks as often as I should...
Have a great day and add some light to Black Friday so so that it’s just a little dark grey.
Bless you. https://youtu.be/Jk2D4dofhPg
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