It is Friday afternoon and I am wondering why I am hungry today. Isn’t portion control a core value for healthy eating – well I seem to have forgotten that value, at least yesterday? Rare is the person who doesn’t enjoy the feast of thanksgiving usually spent with friends and family. Even if you are the host, it is a wonderful event. It is the one meal in our house that our kids help clean up without a direct order. Many love to cook, but few, if any, like the after dinner chore of making it all go away. having the help cleaning up is part of what makes the day special. We know that cleanup is a tough job when you are fighting the tide created by tryptophan. Thanksgiving is also a great day to reflect and count our blessings.
For me, 2010 will surely go down as one of the more interesting years of my working life. Like every year, there was so much promise on January 1. We added the Bryden’s and things looked like it would be onward and upward from there. But things rarely turn out just the way we plan. Who isn’t familiar with this nugget? "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley." (The best laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.) taken from a Robert Burns poem. So here we are at the end of a year and taking account for what we have endeavored to accomplish and counting our many blessings. In spite of our challenges, aren’t we blessed with far more abundance? Even through loss, haven’t we gained?
We said good bye to Nancy Kaminkow early this year. Aren’t we better for having her part of our lives for over 20+ years? Wasn’t her humble service to Jerry and Sal and their customers a constant reminder to us all? Serve others without counting the cost is a measure of true virtue. How about Karey Fox? Will we soon forget her dignity and strength through most difficult circumstances? Grief takes time to process. Paul and I were speaking the other day about how all of his files are graced with Karey’s touch. The Friday after Thanksgiving is the quietest day of the year to work. I confess to taking part of the day today to walk around and remind myself that over the course of a year many things change. No one can predict how or maybe even why that is a recurring fact of life. In particular, since we would never wish for loss, right? We want more and better without sacrificing what we currently have and enjoy. When the trees lose their leaves do they shed a tear or do they look forward to spring when new leaves will blossom and they grow a little taller.
As for me, I am counting my blessings and am grateful to work with so many exceptional people and in the knowledge, emphasized by circumstance in 2010, that there can be gain through loss. I thank Nancy and Karey for that gift.
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