13: A Shore Thing
1. I’ve always resonated with the beatnik generation, but I’m more of a beachnik at heart.
2. I’m thankful that my recent trip to Massachusetts (it had been 2 years) went well, that I enjoyed being with and helping to care for my mother, that I saw all six of my living siblings and that I met four new babies in what my dad would call his “population.” 
3. At the end of each day while caring for my mother, I asked her if it had been a good day and what she liked about it. Some of her answers were seeing her son, her great grandkids, her dinner, and one night she said the best thing about the day was that it was over.
4. My brother Joey is like the Santa of Thanksgiving. He puts on a big family spread every year and has more Thanksgiving spirit than anyone else I know. That’s him pictured above in 2010. It was my first time home for Thanksgiving in 29 years! I missed eating with him and other family members this year by three days.
5. I’m glad my husband Joe’s last name isn’t King, otherwise I’d be calling him “Joking.”
6. Pre-Thanksgiving sign seen on Facebook: Don’t forget to set your scales back 10 pounds this week.
7. On my last day in Hull, I had a glorious walk on the beach, where I tried unsuccessfully to out walk a sandpiper to take a picture and it.
8. Sandpipers are like the keystone cops of the beach.
9. HERE is an interaction of t he youngest and oldest member of my family.
10. Reading Thich Nhat Hanh’s No Death, No Fear in the airport: “Since before time you have been free. Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey. Birth and death are a game of hide and seek. You have never been born and you can never die.”
11. My Facebook friend Kanta lays down the law in this status update: “Please don’t tell me where to buy my coffee. For any reason, ever. Or send me game requests. I won’t answer chain letters and I don’t like private message conversations with a million people in them. I delete cynical comments. There’s more than one way home.”
12. Talking to Joe Wednesday morning about the Bill Cosby rape allegations, I said, “the bigger the limelight, the bigger the shadow, and that’s not even a metaphor.”
13. Butterball moon …. Dark or white … Simmered and served … Slice by slice. –Thanksgiving moon 2010
____________ Thirteen Thursday
November 27th, 2014 4:08 am
I like number six and the photo of the sandpipers.
November 27th, 2014 5:56 am
13 lovely
– I’m a little concerned at the disparagement of people in their senior years Joe Paterno etc. If it was so awful why now??oh well.
my friends are all in North for holiday and seeing that white stuff 65 here and lovely
November 27th, 2014 7:18 am
I knew it! Beats resonate. Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, & Corso among my earliest influences.
My Beloved Sandra’s family has adopted me so I never have to have turkey by myself. It’s a mixed blessing, but I usually survive.
Love the Butterball Moon ref. Thanks.
November 27th, 2014 2:37 pm
This is the first time in 31 years I am not fixing a turkey. Things change, I suppose. I hope you enjoy your holiday.
November 27th, 2014 2:50 pm
in answer to your question on live ornaments , this year I am putting on succulents and probably a little babies breath and planting after Christmas . In years past I’ve collected pods etc or used water tubes for Poinsettia flower sl ast all season.this year the succulents are a gift from me to me will plant January I got locally but they have sets to order
November 27th, 2014 3:00 pm
“His population” is a fun way to look at it.
November 27th, 2014 3:02 pm
The power is out for about half of Floyd Countians. We celebrate and eat at a neighbor’s farm but the power is out there so we have moved to her son’s house in town. I have never done the turkey or if I have it’s so long I forget, and now I barely have a kitchen at this time of year because of the 16 Hands Studio Tour, of which my house and my son’s pottery is included in.
November 28th, 2014 7:04 am
I’m thankful for you.
December 3rd, 2014 4:07 pm
Joking, eh. heh.
set back your scales for Christmas next.