Happy Thanksgiving

Three years ago, I wrote a Thanksgiving piece that really summed up what this holiday means for me, personally. To me, it's always felt like the beginning of the new year, especially in this 20 years that I've been living here. I wrote:

Thanksgiving has seemed like the turning of the new year for me - the time when I reflect on the past year's agonies and flubs and successes, and look forward to the next year. Much more so - for me anyway - than New Years' Eve, which is more decompression from Christmas than anything.

Of course, who knew what the following couple of years would bring? Thanksgiving 2003 was very literally that - I had a job, after a year with four months of no work and five more of spotty contracting. 2004 had me in a contract job at a company that was stable enough - but had contracting policies like a dotcom anyway.

In each case, though, it was still a time to sit back, take a deep breath, and look ahead to changes I'd never predicted the previous year.

I'm thankful, of course, for so much this season; healthy kids, crises weathered, a job that seems like it could be the real thing; the blog's 2005 traffic is double the figure of 2004, which was itself 120% of 2003; a radio show that just gets more fun; for the first time since 1988, a social life of sorts.

As always, as the new begins, I can't complain!

I hope you all have a great thanksgiving.

Posted by Mitch at November 24, 2005 10:09 AM | TrackBack