Happy Thanksgiving.....Patient Critters,Healing Turkey,Heater that hums, and being Thankful....and still hopeful.

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." ~Emily Dickinson

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Xena waits for Turkey ....patiently....the smells stirred something inside her....and even though she is going blind, having trouble moving and can not always remember where she was going...she sat in the kitchen on her old bird perch and watched me for 3 hours making dinner, the snow had melted by Thanksgiving Day so she could not see the birds and squirrels, but she sat there anyways.....waiting knowingly....and smiling.
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So I took a week away...unexpectedly, and in some ways maybe much needed.... It was a week of working too much, by the end of this week I will now have 3 part time jobs, and I hope that is enough....( at some point I will blog about them, only one is nurse oriented)...and then there was the sick Modem that refused to recognize my computer, and some other smaller problems.....but all in all still a wonderful Thanksgiving.I am still grateful for so much....for furry critters that for some reason still love my cooking...for a son that still likes my Turkey and even though he is a teen says things that are wise and insightful,and still cares about things...for Blogatopia that still makes me smile and have hope, even when things are less than grim....And that somehow the Neocons did not steal this Election...and that we get a chance to hope for Change....now I just pray that it is not too late. It was quite a month....hoping and praying that History would indeed turn a page....and that we would be part of it...
and we were....

In some ways I am still in shock...and in other ways I worry how much more broken things will be by January....King George has broken all the toys in toy box....even though they were never his to break. And sadly it will put added pressure and scrutiny on Obama, and I worry that much of what he offered in hope will be dampened because of the Broken Landscape he is handed....

I will do better to be Here.....and somehow get my Blogging rhythm back.....
Lorenna McKinnet below.....a beautiful fall song,"Between the Shadows" to go with a Fall Sunset I took from my porch...( I always crave Celtic Music in the fall).....

The Sunset......

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come." ~Anne Lamott