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Friday Slide Show: Gratitude
24 November 2023
We're sitting on the couch after making our heat-and-serve turkey dinner (which turned out pretty well). Watching the Seattle Seahawks succumb. Planning to whip some heavy cream and slice that pumpkin pie after the game.
And wondering if you can make a slide show about gratitude.
There are those Thanksgivings when you have to think up something you're grateful for and nothing sounds convincing. And then there are those during which you are overwhelmed by all the things you are grateful for.
This is one of those.
Probably it's because there's no family members around to distract us. It's quiet. The oven makes no sound. The microwave just beeps when it's done. We are alone with our thoughts.
And these Thanksgiving candles which have survived the holiday for decades now.
They speak to us. Not out of their little mouths, of course. But through their rounded edges, cartoonish figures and the scratches in their wax.
They are from a Thanksgiving of another era, certainly.
The RCA color TV had to be constantly adjusted to get a picture with fewer ghosts. The men all wore white shirts and ties. The women in aprons busied themselves in the kitchen. The kids, who outnumbered the adults, got in different kinds of harmless trouble.
These candles are echoes of that long, long ago.
So we celebrate that here in a series of images taking at the skilled nursing facility where Mom is rehabbing. This slide show is an expression of gratitude to those adults who shepherded us as children and showed us things we could always believe in, who nourished our souls along with our skinny bodies until we became strong enough to do the same thing for a new generation.
Looking at these unburned candles, we remember them with love. And gratitude.
