A vivid Thanksgiving memory is when I was young I had enough family alive and nearby that we had to put all three leaves in the main table and set up a card table with six more chairs for my brothers and cousins. Oh, and cranberry sauce - only holiday that had it.

I get hope from people continuing to pursue creative endeavors of all kinds to ensure storytelling, imagination, make-believe, and sparks of human spirit are still shared and expressed in many varied ways.

Seems so much like the dot-com fiasco where things were going swell the day before they weren't. As soon as the commercials for slapping AI onto things that make no sense like fridges started to appear that's when it jumped the shark to use TV series lingo.

Present in the moment as much as possible.

Please always use a harness with a leash to move the pressure to the shoulders and off the neck. Yanking a collar dislodges a dog's neck bones and can lead to paralysis if the dog suddenly turns its head, even off-leash. I had a dog go thru it and it took a $2700 vet school surgery to reverse it.

In college I used to do phone customer service for roadside assistance then hotel reservations and one thing you learn is that there are two kinds of people from all over the world - 1) those looking for someone to yell at, and 2) those mature enough not to blame the $7/hour person they're calling.

The utility is to be a constant reminder of your mortal existence and the passage of time so you live a more enriched life by not taking the fleeting days and moments for granted because they will never come again in this universe. They put what matters at the forefront to banish the insignificant.

Oh, National Love Your Red Hair Day. I'll spend the day appreciating my red hair, which was brighter red when I was a kid and darkened to auburn as an adult.

Hmm... People enjoying their basic human rights without corrupt hypocritical government officials violating them to make money and/or to simply harm others out of ignorance or malice.

Do you think the reporters are all writing down "Girl, you is all sorts of cray-cray." and "How dumb does this lady think we all are? She's off the deep end and never coming back to the surface." and "Does her head turn 360 degrees and spit fire after she tells her 1000th lie?" followed by doodles?

Standing on the tallest tower of Conway Castle in North Wales in a gusty wind looking down at the large masted sailing ships below.