Thanksgiving

Last month, Neil Gaiman challenged his fans to celebrate Halloween by giving away scary books. It fit in nicely with my own plan this month to celebrate Thanksgiving by sending out cards expressing my thanks to folks in my life, both past and present.

Thank yous seem to have suffered in our culture over the years. Thank you cards are not sent, we're all too busy. Too busy to be thankful and appreciative for what we have. No wonder people often say they did not know what they had until it is gone.

This means it can be harder to give that thanks, to acknowledge the sentiment, since we have so little experience it seems awkward. And some things it feels easier to thank others for than others. Some because they are just the nature of the relationship. But I think those are the most important cases, where appreciation is best expressed.