{"id":2802,"date":"2023-11-23T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T09:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2023-11-20T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:48:19","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/happy-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"To those of you who celebrate it today: Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost de rigeur<\/em> to talk about the things you are thankful for today, and I\u2019m not knocking that. It\u2019s a good thing. A very good thing.<\/p>\n

For the past few years, I\u2019ve tried to cultivate gratitude in an active, conscious ways. It\u2019s helped me cope with the ups and downs of life in general and the life of a writer, specifically.<\/p>\n

I frequently remind myself of all the huge blessings I have: a wonderful husband, a great family, some very good friends, a warm, water-proof house, and food on the table. They\u2019re the biggies and I never want to forget just how rich all of that makes me.<\/p>\n

For a special day of gratitude, I thought I\u2019d consider some of the less obvious things for which I\u2019m grateful. In no particular order:<\/p>\n

My Kindle:<\/strong> I love that I can carry literally hundreds of books with me when I travel or just go to the dentist\u2019s office. I still love paper books, too, but I find it increasingly hard to read them as my vision deteriorates. For me, the biggest virtue of the Kindle is that it turns every book into instant large print.<\/p>\n

My Garden<\/strong>: I\u2019m not a fabulous gardener by any measure, but I love watching things grow and I enjoy my flowers. There\u2019s something so satisfying about digging in the dirt and producing beautiful results.<\/p>\n

Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/strong>: Do I really need to explain?<\/p>\n

Reto\u2019s Kitchen<\/strong> \u2013 They\u2019re a catering company right down the street from us. During the pandemic they began offering a twice-weekly meal you could order ahead and pick up from them. Sometimes the meals aren\u2019t to my taste, but mostly they are \u2013 and they\u2019re always delicious. I\u2019m so happy they\u2019ve continued to offer this service. We don\u2019t get out as much as we used to, so it\u2019s nice to have access to restaurant-quality food occasionally without having to get dressed up, etc.<\/p>\n

The Greensboro Grasshoppers<\/strong>: They\u2019re our local minor league baseball team, a class High-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. My husband and I both love baseball, and we can see professional (though not Major League caliber) games live at a fraction of the cost of going to an MLB game (and that\u2019s not including transportation and hotel stays for the nearest one in Atlanta). It takes us five minutes to get home after the game is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To those of you who celebrate it today: Happy Thanksgiving! It\u2019s almost de rigeur to talk about the things you are thankful for today, and I\u2019m not knocking that. It\u2019s a good thing. A very good thing. For the past …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}