It was strange moving back to America after being away. Americans have a national identity, a common experience bank, that revolves around the TV schedule.
Did you see the news?
Can you believe what's happening on Survivor?
How 'bout them Mets?
It reminds me of the main character on the movie Scrooged. (Now just because I mention it doesn't mean I recommend it). He kept talking about his Christmas memories. In one memory, he pictured himself running through a field of wheat, then the big snow set in and it was only because Mr. Edwards forded the swollen creek that he and his sisters got a tin cup and a penny in their stockings. In another memory, he was hurt, but the dog ran to get help. All his happiest memories were not his at all, but television moments that he took as his own. Think Little House on the Prairie and Lassie.
What memories will you make tomorrow? Will they center around the big game (Denver vs. Kansas City will be on the set here) and the Thanksgiving Day Parade, or will you make your own happy times?
I sit at my mother-in-law's kitchen island breathing in scents of stuffing and rising bread and I'm thankful for the chance for my kids to make new memories with their cousins.
May many happy memories and many blessings deserving of thanks be yours.
1 comment:
We spent Thanksgiving in Victoria, BC and I bought the turkey and all the trimming to make for us. We had the best time doing something different and going somewhere we all love.
AND, it is not Thanksgiving in Canada so all the stores are open!
Many Blessing to you and yours Patty.
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