It might all be as simple as this. Do what you love.

There is a quote by E.B. White…. that really struck me today. It is this.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.   – E. B. White
Now today… one was of those “monster-get-things-done” kind of day. I did a whole lot around the house. Clean… clean.. clean. And Mary… cooked… cooked… cooked. To the point of making us both pretty weary.

Yes, the day before Thanksgiving is always a big prep kind-of-day. And the week preceding is much the same. Planning, and shopping, and scurrying about.

All in preparation for the Thanksgiving Meal. A “feeding melee”…. which at tops…. will last about 18 minutes. Tops. Then everyone will push away from table… and recite the obligatory… “Oh my gosh. I am stuffed.”

Like a turkey.

It seems like an awful lot of work… for 18 minutes.  Perhaps we should just call it flipping the bird.  Oh…. some people may think… is it worth it?

Of course it IS. Every chopped onion, every scrubbed toilet, every peeled potato, swept floor, and folded napkin… is absolutely worth it. Not for the 18 minutes. Nope.

But for the lifetimes shared together. The love and the care throughout the years… those moments that helped make us who we are. The joys and the tears. The good and the bad. All together.

Showing our thanks for all those minutes in our lives… that we have been blessed enough to have one another. Our loved ones.

So much more than 18 minutes.

Which brings me right back to E. B. White. Do what gives you joy.

With joy… I say to all of you….. Happy Thanksgiving.