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It’s Thanksgiving Day already, and though it’s a year that might seem that there was little to be thankful for, with the recession and all, I am very thankful for my life in Waseca County, Minnesota.
When I was a little girl living in the corner house on Wells and Weide Streets in St. Paul, I played dolls with my two friends, Sharon and Karen. We spent one whole summer making houses and businesses for our storybook dolls—out of discarded cardboard boxes, snippets of cloth, string, masking tape (Karen’s father worked for 3M), and any little junk from around our houses! We were not only playing house, we were playing town. Karen ran our general store. Sharon had a beauty parlor, and I made a little church. These were our essentials. I never dreamed then that I would grow up to live in a small town. But I wouldn’t trade my life in Waseca for anything. Now I live on Main Street (N. State Street) in a house that also has a flower shop, and I help manage the local history museum! This is what I realized this week as Thanksgiving was approaching, and this is just some of what I am grateful.
And while most of us will eat more than we need to on Thanksgiving Day, let us be grateful that we have enough to eat. I am always surprised when I hear about how many do not, and they are among us right here in our community. But then our community always come forward for the fundraisers--the generosity in our community is wonderful. So let us be thankful, let us be together, let us pray for peace, safety and wellness. Let us be positive and have hope. What are you grateful for?
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