Thanksgiving 2020

This year, with the pandemic surging around us, unemployment, hunger, a chaotic election, social unrest, hurricanes, forest fires...what can we be thankful for?

I'm thankful for my family's love and support.

I'm thankful for our health and safety.

I'm thankful for friends, even though some live far away.

I'm thankful for living at Brazos Towers, a caring and friendly community.

I'm thankful for my Zoom sisters, who meet regularly to support one another, chat and share news and views.

Those are the big things, but there are lots of little things I'm thankful for, too:

My cat's comforting purr when she cuddles up next to me.

The inspiration I've gained from writing classes.

The morning paper.

Ice cream.

Seeing the night sky from my living room window.

And, of course, the Internet and Zoom,

To everyone, Happy Thanksgiving!  Stay safe.

Books of October

 I read quite a bit in October, but it was not a good reading month.  See below.

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picault. I am adding her name to list of authors I will never read again.  This was a strange book.  After surviving a plane crash, a woman travels to Egypt to re-connect with her first love.  Never mind that she has a husband and daughter and a supposedly happy marriage in Boston.  If you long to know everything there is to know about Egyptology, pointillism, the work of a death doula, then this is the book for you.  I believe the author's son is doing graduate work in Egyptology.  She might have been better off helping him write his thesis.  By the way, the ending of this book is really disappointing.

The Vanishing Half.  This book has been on the best seller list for a long time so I decided to read it.  It's the story of twin sisters who are light-skinned Blacks from a town where all the Blacks are light-skinned.  They run away from home and their lives diverge.  One marries an abusive Black man and one passes for White.  Various subplots intrude on the story and the ending is so weak, I thought my Kindle had left out some pages.

How to Be an Anti-Racist.  Interesting book about not only how to be anti-racist, but about differences among Black people in terms of caste, gender, color, etc.

Cartoon for the Week

 

No Matter Who You Voted For, All Women Should Appreciate This Quote:

"Grateful to Kamala Harris for redefining what an American Vice President looks like and for getting there is a pair of converse instead of pretending it's sensible to spend all day in high heels."

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo

                        

ELECTION DAY!

 

Survey:

Will you

Stay up all night to watch the returns?

Stay up until the Texas returns are in?

Stay up until the Florida returns are in?

Watch a movie on Netflix?

Don't Forget To Vote: Ten quotes