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Lots to be thankful for

By Catherine Toth Fox • November 25, 2010 • Musings, The Daily Dish

It’s easy to take what we have for granted.

We do it all the time.

In fact, we do it so often, there’s a national holiday to remember to be grateful.

Thanksgiving.

Forget this over-hyped meal shared between the Pilgrims and the Indians. Thanksgiving has turned into a commercialized holiday where families sit around a dinner table — maybe for the first time that year — to partake in a 15-pound turkey and pass around bowls of mashed potatoes and candied yams.

But it’s also a time when we can look around at our life — at the stack of bills on the table or the laundry piling up in the bathroom — and say, “Hmm, this isn’t so bad.”

So here are some — just some! — things I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving.

And yes, I’m thankful for you, too!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

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7 Comments

  • Reply M November 24, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving Cat!

  • Reply nonstopmari November 25, 2010 at 2:43 am

    happy tgiving! thnku for this warm, personal reminder abt what this day is abt before i start stressing abt cooking my turkey and stuffing. which i am grateful to have as a source of stress. we are indeed v lucky.

  • Reply turkfontaine November 25, 2010 at 8:38 am

    i can’t cook, but i can wash dishes and scoop ice cream.hey, i think i saw some hot fudge in the fridge, and i know there’s a half gallon of DoubleRainbow French Vanilla. an introduction is in order.

  • Reply WildeOscar November 25, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    This was a joy to read. It must have been a wonderful experience to create it.

  • Reply NeilYamamoto November 25, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    Y’know Cat, it’s true… We do have a lot to be thankful for… so here’s a lil’ poem I just thought up…

    What I am Thankful For
    are the bills upon my table
    they remind me that I have things
    like water, electricity and digital cable

    What I am Thankful For
    is laundry waiting to be washed
    and dirty dishes in the sink
    means that I’ve got clothes on my back
    and enough food and drink.

    What I am Thankful For
    is coming home tired late at night
    means that I have a job
    that I work hard at with all my might

    But what I am MOST Thankful For
    is the laughter and smile
    of friends like you, both near and far,
    who make my life worthwhile.
    -NeilYamamoto

    I know it’s a day late, but Happy Thanksgiving Cat, we’re all thankful for YOU!

    NEO

  • Reply harrycovair November 26, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    Happy Belated Thanksgiving Cat. We all have something to be thankful for in our own way.

  • Reply dbjack November 26, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    Nicely done.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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