Today is Thanksgiving. Wherever, however, and with whomever you spend it, it is my most sincere wish for you and yours that it is a peaceful, safe, and happy Thanksgiving.
For those of us fortunate to spend today in the company of at least some of those people who we love and who love us, let us be mindful that not everyone shares in our good fortune. Life is hard for most of us but it can be unfairly so for far too many, and tragically it is far too often.
If you open your eyes this morning and close them tonight in a place where you are loved and a place where you are wanted, then congratulations. You are home. Your vow to yourself, to those you love, and to those who love you is to not take that feeling for granted. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. Work hard today and every day to honor that feeling and, better still, to earn it.
Appreciate just how precious it is to feel as if you belong. It possesses the capacity to fill us up more heartily than one's inhalation of turkey and its accompanying side dishes shall ever do. Experience teaches us all that that feeling - of love, of belonging, of home - is never guaranteed. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
Kindness costs nothing. It is, however, invaluable. It might just be the beacon that helps someone find his or her way home who otherwise would not have gotten there.
Happy Thanksgiving.
-AK
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