The most important decision each person makes in live is the choices they make of the people around them.
No matter the age – as children, teens, young adults, adults, and elders – the importance of the choices is the same.
No matter the place – work, school, neighbors, organizations, and more – the importance of the choices is the same.
No matter our choice of hobbies – dance, photography, travel, bicycling, knitting, blogging, or more – the importance of the choices is the same.
For Thanksgiving 2018, I am thankful for all the good people who have been around me all my years – my hometown, college, neighbors, work, church, conferences, dance, vacations, family, and many more – and that includes the good people in blogging.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Returning this weekend for Act 2 of Pronouns 2: The Musical featuring songs with Mine in the title. Curtain goes up at 1:00 AM (Eastern US).
Enjoy your holiday xo
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Pauline,
Thank you. Just returned from a up-Thursday back-Friday trip going cross state about 3.5 hours each way. Whirlwind, but good. … and Happy Thanksgiving to my favorite Kiwi.
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I agree with you on choices being what we all share–and then the consequences are addressed by all as well. I am hopeful for the future, even if not very optimistic. Happy Thanksgiving! I, too, am thankful for family and friends, including blogging friends.
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Patti
Thanks for the best wishes and support on my statement. Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for being one of the good people here.
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Beautiful. Also individual people, like these two, create their own nirvana.
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Cindy,
Absolutely … and hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
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Happiness and Blessing, Thank you, Love, nia
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Nia,
Thank you … and Happy Thanksgiving to my favorite Turk. 🙂
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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love the message in this post. Truly, the people around us can shape our lives for better or worse. We must always choose the better, even when it seems difficult.
Have a great day!
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Fiery,
Thank you for the kind words. Excellent explanation of my intent. Love the way you sum it up with “better or worse” … Perfect! Meanwhile, we had a good holiday gathering with family (although a whirlwind journey). A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you … and hope to see you at the musical.
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I will probably be a little late! But I’ll try my best x
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Happy holiday. Can I add the following music to your thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DROkQJc_F0
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Phillip,
Happy Thanksgiving American-style to you. Thanks for the beautiful music – and it wonderfully fits the occasion!
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Happy Thanksgiving Frank. 😊
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Holly,
Thank you … and hopefully you had a bountiful Thanksgiving Day.
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Very much so Frank. Though Thanksgiving Day means little to me in the present day circumstances. Still my son Was home from Uni so that was especially joyful.
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Outstanding. Did he follow Mom’s heart to FSU?
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No he is at the U ! He plans to get a masters at Barry.
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… And your heart sinks thinking he at the U. 😪
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My bank account sinks. 😊. I’m a huge fan of U of M.
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Happy Holidays Frank.. 🙂
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Sue,
A Thanksgiving wish from across the pond is a good thing. Thanks for the smiles! Happy Thanksgiving to you.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Frank. 🙂
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Wendy,
Thank you .. and Happy Thanksgiving weekend to you!
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Happy Thanksgiving, Frank!
This is a lovely version of “Simple Gifts.” I was thinking of this song the other day when I heard part of Copeland’s Appalachian Spring.
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Merril,
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to you and your family. Simple Gifts is such fitting music for the season … and you thinking of it the other day is another one of our serendipitous moments. 🙂
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🙂
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Happy Thanksgiving, Frank.
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John,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours … and I hope the 3 beggers got some special treats for the day.
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Always take care of them.
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Beautiful choice in music, Frank. I love these two and to put them together… I give thanks for that.
Enjoy your holiday with your loved ones.
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Dale,
Happy Thanksgiving from the southside of our border. Just returned from good time with family.
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Thanks… I didn’t celebrate mine last month as I was working so I have to celebrate vicariously through my ‘Murican friends!
Glad you had a good time!
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I had to scurry to respond to these comments before the next act goes live!
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Ya best git ‘er done, then!!
I’m going out for dinner and will be home with lots of time to play… if I don’t end up going to bed early!
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Have fun! …. (and I know you will)
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Will do my best!
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Thank you for this today. Best wishes!
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Mo,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Hope you had a bountiful day filled with good cheers. … and I always love hearing from one of my blogging Pioneers when I post about the good people behind blogs.
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I’m grateful this Thanksgiving that you introduced me and my wife to Sirius XM Satellite Radio. The music choices it gives us when we’re driving are incredible. Here for example is a piece by trumpeter Chet Baker that kept me calm recently during a long traffic tie-up on I-71: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6mfWun73vI
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Tim,
Glad you have enjoyed Sirius XM. Sure beat terrestrial radio! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and thanks for sharing the peaceful tones of Chet Baker.
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Nicely written, Frank–a philosophy I can get behind, 100%!
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Kerry,
Thank you … and hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and weekend!
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Happy belated Thanksgiving to you, Frank. I hope you had a nice day.
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Betsy,
Belated Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well. We had a good day. Was yours?
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Yes. There were the classic Betsy baking flubs, which I hope to find the time to blog about. Other than that, it was really nice, thanks. 🙂
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Flubs are part of the day … and a chance to laugh.
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Beautiful song. Well done, Frank. We Wheelers had a delayed Thanksgiving yesterday, reason being that wife Mollie fell a week ago and suffered a “mile to moderate” compression fracture to a vertebra. She is now recovering and ambulatory. It’s times like this that the sentiments you express here are most meaningful. — Jim
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Jim,
Sorry to hear the news, but wishing Mollie nothing but the best for a continuing recovery. Best wishes also to you during these trying times. Thanks for taking the time to fill me in because I’ve been wondering about you.
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Frank, I hope you had a wondeful Thanksgiving.
Who we surround ourselves determines much in our life. Years ago, I had to make the painful choice of having to distance myself from negative people. My life has been positive ever since.
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Drew,
Belated Happy Thanksgiving to you … and I hope you had a wonderful holiday. MANY thanks for a bit of your story that supports my point. Thumbs up to your choices!
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Hope you had a great holiday, Frank..:
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George,
Thank you … and we had a wonderful holiday. Hopefully you did as well.
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