Thanks! We didn't do anything Thanksgivingy but it was just a nice day overall. We bought a grill here which is not something I was able to do living in a big city for the past 15 years and made some great food and hung out by the water and talked and ate. So I guess in some sense it was a little Thanksgivingy even if nontraditional :)

Glad to hear you're getting back to friends and family. That really is something to be thankful for.

I think even families that got put into lockdown under the same roof probably distanced their relationships a bit. Most people need the option to be distant in order to really be close.

Whether distanced or crammed together, we all have a lot of healing to do right now.

Where I was in NYC, we got hit very hard and we had a few personal losses and several more within 1 degree of separation from us.

My family is in Florida so I haven't seen any of them since 2019. Now that I've moved it will probably be another year which is hard. Especially since I have a lot of young nieces and nephews including a niece I've never met.

But... being out of my too small, dark, and cramped apartment and into the open sunshiney world has certainly made reaching out to friends and family more emotionally accessible to me and that means I'm talking to everyone a lot more now and that's something to be very thankful for. It really is grounding to connect with family and I'd forgotten that.

It's nice though to look back and think that good things actually did happen this past year.

Thank you for helping me out these past few months and showing me the ropes. This has been a great experience it's because there are just genuinely kind and interesting people like you around here who are constantly lifting others up.

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