While this Thanksgiving may be different, one thing will remain the same...

For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving, I'd like to wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Thanksgiving!

This has always been one of my favorite holidays. After all, what’s not to love about a day dedicated to the pure and mutual intention of being thankful?

Our family normally spends Thanksgiving together. We all travel to my sisters’ house. Mom makes the turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. My sister makes the Jell-O with marshmallows and the pop-open biscuits we only have once a year. My daughter and I make spanakopita appetizers (still not sure how that tradition started). My husband makes the gravy and he and my brother somehow always ends up washing the dishes at the end of the night (thank you both).

Extended family and friends arrive with flowers and food and love. Whoever doesn’t have a family to be with that year always joins ours. Cousins run around in the background laughing and playing. Tables are pushed together and set outside as that’s the only place that will fit all of us. It is truly one of my favorite times of the year.

Of course, this year will look quite different.

We won’t all be together - we’ll be spread across the country in our respective cities and homes. I will miss the cousins laughing and playing together, I will miss catching up with everyone and I will especially miss being with my Mom, the beautiful conductor of it all, bringing everything and everyone together.

But while this year may be a little different, one thing will remain the same.

Before we eat, we will go around the table and each share what we are thankful for. This family tradition requires us to pause from our lives and intentionally express our gratitude. It is my favorite part of Thanksgiving.

I invite you to do the same, regardless of whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or how it looks this year. I invite you to take a moment to pause and express what you are grateful for - today and every day.

Gratitude is alchemy. Being intentionally grateful is one of the simplest and most powerful things we can do to live a full and happy life. Even when times are strange, scary and awful, we can always find something to be grateful for.

“As we invite the energy of gratitude into our daily lives we become alchemists…turning dark into light, scarcity into abundance, and fear into love.” – Deepak Chopra.

I’ll start now. Thank you. Thank you for your support, your trust and your time. For reading my emails and articles, sharing your stories and experiences, and for your feedback and appreciation. I'm grateful for you.

With love and gratitude,
Tracy

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