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November 2018 Thanksgiving Pre-thought


                                                           Delores Fisher

Just a brief hello to thank you for putting us over the 20,000 mark! Special November hello to Ukraine, Brazil, Russia, Canada, and India. Yes, my readers are diverse ...

Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving is fast "trotting" onto the holiday scene. We seem, in general, a bit more solemn and contemplative this year due to acts of violence and oppression. Perhaps we are becoming more deeply grateful for blessings in the middle of hurt and pain and confusion, and yes, anger, and frustration, and yet...humility. 

Words also can not express our profound acknowledgement of bigger than life natural forces beyond our control. As a planet, we can not always accurately predict let alone completely control what geology or weather will do.  

Thanksgiving may look a little different this year. But if we keep love in our hearts, maybe more than a pinch of patience and compassion . . . and a special place in our hearts for those whose lives interact in a nurturing way with ours. Thinking of two very special people:

 Vince Meades:
Vince Meades and me (several years ago) at Special Collections and University Archives San Diego State University, discussing my research finds in his generous sheet music donation to the archives.

 See some of the results at: https://sonictapestry.wordpress.com/the-vince-meades-collection/

 And, India's Rabandra Sakar  "Rock Whisperer--My first video interview. The Reiki Master was so kind to grant the interview and to let me post it.

                                 
We continue to keep in touch and can often be found, when he is in town, talking about spirituality and life as we sit on the sea side boardwalk wall at Seaport Village/ Embarcadero.
                                              Ravi and me at Seaport Village

 As many areas of the world start to rebuild, from the wildfires of Southern California that has claimed over 40 lives https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/california-fires-camp-woolsey-containment-evacuations-death-toll-2018-11-13-live-updates/  to other especially hard hit regions of our world like Southern India struggling to recover from its monsoonal rains  https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/devastating-monsoon-floods-in-kerala-india/568171/   

 -----Let us send up prayers and positive thoughts for healing and renewal; let us give financial gifts to reputable charities and disaster relief funds, share a conversation or a smile with the homeless, be a little more patient with people who don't look like, don't act like, don't think like or don't talk like us.
And if we can't agree, at least respect the other's right to an opinion.  

Giving thanks  giving for intercessory prayers, blessings, and mercy for us all . . . 
Delores Fisher

   

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