Thanksgiving

There's an anonymous saying: Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

I like the homespun imagery, and the hint that being thankful for blessings may help them stick around. This is a lot more positive an approach than a piece of Talmud that recently came to my attention, to the effect that one who enjoys something without saying a blessing is like a thief. Although that sentiment also has a point, and may be what some people need to hear.

Anyway, Thanksgiving Day was yesterday, and I enjoyed it at the home of a neighbor and in the company of several friends. We each spoke some during the course of the evening about some major development in our lives in the past year for which we are thankful.

I talked about my Bat Mitzvah and getting involved in the work of the San Francisco Organizing Project. The work has brought me into a community of San Franciscan people of faith of many colors and religions, and has allowed me to meet with my political representatives and participate in the bettering of life for me and my fellow San Franciscans, Californians, and Americans. I'm proud and humbled to be part of this work.

There's sunshine outside, and I'd better get out and enjoy it before the all-too-soon winter sunset.

Blessings on us all, with appropriate gratitude.