What a turkey!

"What is the bottom line as I see it? We are thankful. Thankful for what we have. Thankful for friends and family. Thankful for this great country. Mostly however, thankful this Friday the 13th year is almost over!"  

Turkey Day 2020. Can't think of a more appropriate year to have such a "one-off" Thanksgiving. For the first time in just about forever, we are not having a turkey for dinner today - just a turkey breast. Also, for the first time in just about forever, we are not celebrating with friends or family - it will be just the two of us. I know that many of our friends or social media pals are also having a "one-off" holiday. My feeling right now? First, make the best of it, and second, get it over with, so we can move one day closer to vaccination day.

What will be the biggest turkey today? Will it be the Steeler/Raven game which got scrubbed due to too many Covid cases on the Ravens? Or would it be the fear that the CDC now has that too many Americans are blowing off their warnings about small, family only gatherings. One spokesperson for the CDC said in less than a week, we could have a "spike within a spike", based on how we celebrate Thanksgiving. Or - it could end up being just a nothing burger. Much to do about nothing. I will say this - if some gambled wrong, and ended up with too many people at the table, for too long of a time, and the numbers do spike - it will "set the table" on how we celebrate Christmas. 

Well, enough about how Covid has made a turkey out of Turkey Day. The reason for this season is still thankfulness. And as weird and unpredictable as this year has been, we still have much to be thankful for. After we scrape off all the built up tarter this year has left on us, we come down to a very important, and unchanging fact - we are blessed. Sure, we can gripe about how things could be better. I guess I am the poster boy for that issue! But we are blessed to live in this great country. We are well fed, housed, educated, and have the finest medical treatment in the world. And it is the it is the way it is, year, after year, after year.

We are going to get through this Covid thing. We are going to get through the confusion of the election. We are going to get through the social unrest and rioting. How do I know that? We always manage to come out on the other side.

But today we give thanks - thanks for being able to partake in this almost unlimited cup of blessings. Then at Christmas time, we celebrate love and giving with family and friends. We celebrate the most important birthday the world has ever known. Finally on New Years Eve, we dust ourselves off, and plan how to make 2021 a better year. Yes, it will be okay to start forgetting all the kerfuffle and mayhem we went though in 2020.

What is the bottom line as I see it? We are thankful. Thankful for what we have. Thankful for friends and family. Thankful for this great country. Mostly however, thankful this Friday the 13th of a year is almost over!