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Giving thanks on Thanksgiving

by on Nov. 26, 2009, under Life, Media

However you define your “community” today, consider thinking about what you are grateful for on this Thanksgiving 2009. Fellow blogger Debra Thornley “Jump Write In” last week urged readers to write a Memoir of gratitude.

Every Thanksgiving I ask whomever I am enjoying a meal with, to reflect upon just ONE thing they are grateful for.

I am expressing my gratitude for being alive and healthy, as two female friends suddenly lost their middle-aged sisters-in-law this year, one to a fatal heart attack, the other to breast cancer which had spread. Another friend of mine Bill is battling lung cancer and I send him my best wishes and prayers today as well.

Good holiday wishes also to fellow Tucson Citizen bloggers and editors Mark Evans and Ryn Gargulinski, and to our loyal readers, supporters, and advertisers.

We have been online now as “The Voice of Tucson” (at www.tucsoncitizen.com) for over 6 months! That’s really something to be grateful for.

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  • Jennatoolz

    I’m definitely grateful for this website. It makes my long boring days at work go by quicker, and it gives me a lot of insight as to what goes on around Tucson. Even though I haven’t met anyone (yet) I still consider them friends! :) Happy Thanksgiving all!!

  • erniemccray

    I’m thankful for “Voice of Tucson” because it enables me to sit in my den in San Diego and get a sense of what’s going on, of what’s on the minds of folks in my place of birth. For what it’s worth, I get a feeling of “thereness,” if you will, and then I go take a walk on the beach as my homeys curse 100 plus degree temperatures (smile). But as I walk I see, in my mind, a mountain adorned with an “A” and the Catalinas stretching wide and a path leading to “Old Main.” I think of all the ballgames I played in Bear Down and just generally feel good thinking of my dear old hometown, thankful that the first 24 years of my life were spent there and that it’s close enough for me to visit on a whim.

  • Carolyn Classen

    Thanks for both your comments.  The friends I had Thanksgiving lunch with yesterday were grateful for their jobs (if they had one) and for our friendship/fellowship together.  I am grateful for my Tucson friends as well, and you readers of our  “Voice of Tucson.”

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