Give Thanks
We take this month to once again offer a mini review of all we have to be grateful for.
Health: Whether you travel for it, like Linda Helper, or find it at home, it has to be top on the list of things for which we feel deep gratitude.
Freedom of speech in art and politics: We celebrate art, old friends and new, and take a Thanksgiving look at cooking. Dave Gibbons gives us organic wine, Nina Resor provides a panoply of pies for your table, and Judy Young lets us see the lighter side of cooking, thanks to Maggie Melanson’s new skinny on good food.
We’re even sending a shout of praise for the Internet, a tool that many of us prize so much more than we could ever have imagined. So many boomers, over 50, grandparents or, in the words of writer Lauren Walker, “silver surfers,” are experiencing an unexpected freedom using the Web to date, shop, visit relatives, or just stay busy on the Internet super highway.
In full disclosure, Lauren Walker was once my student, and she now helps me with all sorts of cyber tasks. She prodded me into starting a blog. Give us a visit.
Midlifemambo.blogspot.com
But Lauren also is launching a service called ASK THE GEEK, where THRIVEnyc readers get to beam questions to Lauren and her wizard husband Tony about the sometimes frustrating world of Internet. So let’s see if we can stump the GEEK wizards; better yet, be grateful that you can write in and get some help.
ThriveGeeks@gmail.com
Beyond all the things we can list like pies, friends, fall apples, books, classic cars or the wisdom we occasionally recognize, as we get older, a great piece of gratitude has to go the sweet simple act of breathing. In and out, it calms and reminds us that we are present. If we can still be grateful for a simple reflexive act and all it brings us, then we can move on to more complicated things like electronics, grandchildren, modern medicine, and old friends.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Wickham Boyle
