13 Thankful Thursday
1. I used to keep a journal just for writing what I was thankful for. This is an entry written on the fall Equinox of 1998: I looked at the trees upside down. I looked at a horse close-up. I saw the moon misshapen, jumped on the trampoline, and watched a star bounce in and out of a tree branch. I lit a candle and watched it flicker. I longed for pansies and writing letters. I helped Dylan do his homework.
2. I feel all around better when I go over the things I was thankful that day before going to sleep. It’s usually the small things I remember.
3. This is the prayer I said every night as girl: God Bless Mommy, Daddy, Jimmy, Kathy, Colleen, Danny, Sherry, Johnny, Joey, Bobby, and Trish. Accompanying photo is HERE. My late brother Jimmy’s Thanksgiving Birthday post HERE.
4. I’ve never used an ATM machine, played the Lottery, or a game of Frisbee. I have cooked a turkey before, but only a few times.
5. For the past 20 years, my family and I have been I sharing Thanksgiving with close friends at a community farm nearby. This year I’m bringing mashed rutabagas and potatoes, a six pack of beer, and two pies.
6. Last week I had the privilege of being a judge for an elementary school literary contest. My favorite written line (which was not part of the contest but something I saw hanging on the wall in the hall before I left) is still on my mind. It was written by an 8 year old boy and goes like this: “My sister’s name is Daisy. Of course, her favorite flower is Daisy. She likes rice too.”
7. As a blogger, when I’m involved in an event, I’m like a student who doesn’t do homework but listens well in class. Although I hate to disrupt the flow by taking notes, sometimes I do slip off and jot a few things down. But mostly I’m like my mother, a waitress who never wrote an order down, which is why I don’t know who the who THIS woman is cutting the ribbon at the Village Green Open House and standing next to Woody and the mayor.
8. Hearing THIS is a Thanksgiving tradition.
9. Tuesday I played Scrabble with Mara. It was the first time we have played since the summer. Referring to the toll all her schoolwork has had on her lately, she said, “My bread is recovered,” but she meant to say “My head is recovered,” so I guess it really wasn’t.
10. Mara told me that her daughter Kyla’s byline is “I like pie.”
11. I’m really thankful that I don’t have to set alarm clocks anymore.
12. When I write for myself, I don’t use punctuation like I don’t wear a bra to bed, which is why I had to add punctuation to the journal entry part of #1.
13. In the fall, the red zinnia of spring is replaced with the red of maple. Then comes the winter and the slate is wiped cleaned.
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November 22nd, 2007 1:08 am
Very interesting T13, I liked it very much. glad you were one of my random 13 this week.
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November 22nd, 2007 1:11 am
Nice list. Happy Thanksgiving.
November 22nd, 2007 2:33 am
I thought you played Scrabble with your friend Mara more often!! Thanks for linking to that picture of all your siblings, I had missed that post…
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, it sounds like you will be having a wonderful celebration!
November 22nd, 2007 3:02 am
I love the quote in #6! Too funny! My TT is up too. 🙂
November 22nd, 2007 8:28 am
Happy Holiday! Enjoyed your list, as always.
November 22nd, 2007 10:19 am
You are very blessed!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hello, Michele sent me. And I will be back……….
Jerry in Tampa
November 22nd, 2007 10:25 am
what kind of pies??sounds great and I like that going to sleep with thankfukness on the brain..sk
November 22nd, 2007 11:31 am
Apple and pumpkin. My kitchen looked like a lab where something was about to blow up. The last thing I said to Joe at 11:30 p.m. last night was.,”I’m heading in for a bath the pumpkin pie will be done in five minutes.” He was on the computer “Christmas shopping,” Josh came in from Asheville. I never got in the bath and the crust burned slightly. Today, my arms are aching from cutting up rutabagas.
November 22nd, 2007 11:48 am
Indeed, dear Colleen. A very sweet Thanksgiving Thursday 13…..And I wish you a Very Very Happy Thabksgivibg on this November 22nd, 2007….And Michele sent me here to say that to you today!
November 22nd, 2007 3:59 pm
happy thanksgiving
November 22nd, 2007 5:39 pm
Happy Thanksgiving. 1 sounds like a great idea. I’mm working on a “blessed be” series of poems that’s along that line.
November 22nd, 2007 7:01 pm
Happy Thanksgiving Colleen to you and your family. I have a love/hate relationship with my alarm clock. I didn’t set it today and I was an hour late for work 🙁
Adore this line: In the fall, the red zinnia of spring is replaced with the red of maple. Then comes the winter and the slate is wiped cleaned.
e-Talk soon, XINE
November 22nd, 2007 7:19 pm
Colleen, I hope that you guys had a wonderful holiday!
November 22nd, 2007 7:26 pm
When I read about the siblings I figured you were either Irish or Catholic or both. Here in Quebec, it was not uncommon to see families with up to fourteen, sometimes eighteen kids, but of course nowadays it’s mostly single kids, or 2.2 or whatever the average is. Did you ever get my email?
November 22nd, 2007 10:16 pm
I can almost smell and taste those pies! Our Thanksgiving seems so long ago in early october! You have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!
November 22nd, 2007 11:03 pm
So am I supposed to sign up somewhere at the mother house to let them know I’ve participated? This is all so new to me…
November 22nd, 2007 11:15 pm
Michele sent me back, Colleen. You’ve never used an ATM? I use one all too often (mostly out, not in….LOL)
November 23rd, 2007 11:05 am
If you’ve never used an ATM how do you go get bunches of cash out, like when you travel? I am just stuck with that one! It is like my one friend who still has no cell phone and no debit card. I use my debit card for everything and pay all our bills online so her unchanging ways amuse and confuse me.
November 23rd, 2007 12:28 pm
I bring the cash with me, use a credit card or write a check. I guess I have never changed because the way I’m used to it works fine and I never felt the urge to change it. I have no cell phone either!
November 23rd, 2007 2:49 pm
I sent you the email again, did you get it this time?
November 23rd, 2007 2:56 pm
I love the daisy and rice line. Sweet! 🙂