Giving, thanks.

Hey! It's a mess of a Thanksgiving post ahead, written while I'm dying to get out of my state.

Last year I had this wine for the holiday.

This year I will not. I will miss it. I thought of drinking the remaining bottle last night that I have been hoarding since I brought it back from California this spring but decided against it. It's more of a birthday sort of thing to do than a Thanksgiving eve eve thing, I think.

I just realized that it will be my second Thanksgiving in a row in a coastal city (this time the right one) with some configuration of my extended family. I may be having trouble with a general sense of gratitude at the moment, as I noted below, but I'll be glad to be with them tomorrow. Life is basically a series of choices and activities, moving on from one thing to the next in the best way we know how, and I'm very happy that we have all chosen to be in the same place tomorrow.

I just hope I can scrounge up a relish tray, because without one on Thanksgiving I'm not sure I can carry on.

I wrote a much more articulate Thanksgiving sort of post two years ago and I enjoyed re-reading it today.

I'm praying for wireless in the place where I'm staying because tomorrow I'm kicking off a month and change of birthday posts. I can't even tell you how many people I know who were born from the last week of November through the first of January. It is a crazy number, and it just so happens that this span of time includes the birthdays of some of my very closest friends and family. It's weird. 

And because I'm not such a fountain of joy and light myself as much as I just reflect it back from people in my life who rock, I thought I'd spend the holiday season talking about them. This isn't a revolutionary idea. There are other bloggers who do it all year round (I'm personally a fan of Mr. Lady's birthday posts for her people,) and I'll gladly thank them for the idea in the first place. But this year it has special meaning for me. I will be eternally 39 on December 27 and I know a lot of people in transition. It just seems like the right thing to do.

I'll start tomorrow, assuming that stretch of coastal Carolina has it some Internets.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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[She Likes Purple]

My birthday is early January! Look at that!

Also, can we talk more about the wine. The wine is calling to me. What kind is it?!