Thanksgiving 2009 is quickly drawing to a close here in the Shenandoah Valley for another year. I was blog hopping today and found many blogs of people listing what they are thankful for. I won't do much of that. I can say that in my humanity and current knowledge I am happy to be still on time's side of the continuum. I can't say how happy I might be if I had crossed into timelessness because I have no reference point.
I have been within a couple of inches, a few minutes, a few mm Hq of cranium pressure, a few mph of death's door 4 times in my life. I was given up as lost in a car fire once, given up medically and air lifted to a larger trauma facility once, told I came with inches of being crushed once, and told I would have died had the speed been any higher once.
Why did I emerge each time to live longer? I don't know. Am I thankful? As much as I know I am. But I will have to wait until I cross over to really know. And the chances of me getting back to you with an answer is unlikely. I say unlikely because I don't know of anyone that has been able to communicate to those left after leaving themselves.
I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. We had a nice meal here with two of our children and one of our granddaughters. The last 3 days I have been off and have had so much peace and serenity I hate for it to end. Tomorrow being "Black Friday," or "Super Friday" as we call it in my corner of the retail world, I will be plunged back into the throes and chaos of capitalism and materialism. Hmmm. It is what it is.
