Tonight I was with a woman I haven't seen in a while. I asked her how she's been and she went into a litany of all of her current ills- her blood pressure is up, she just had a shot of something for the pain in her back, and soon will have another shot for a pain somewhere else...and oh, now her finger hurts and she can't bend it (although she bent it to demonstrate! ;)
So, then I asked her what is good in her life? She told me that she is about to go on a 3 week trip with her son. First they will fly into Rome and spend a few nights there and then go on an amazing cruise to Florence, Istanbul, Portofino, Dubrovnik and then go back to Rome. Her face lit up and she completely forgot about her ills.
Clearly there's a lesson here. It's November. Thanksgiving month. Let's all try to count our blessings and concentrate on what is good in our lives. Maybe we'll even forget about the bad for a moment.
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