Friday Fish Wrap: November 27, 2009

Did everybody have a great Thanksgiving? Sometimes I think that if you simply survive a holiday with your sanity intact and a full belly, it’s a great one. I keep wondering if I’ll ever meet that perfect family that has no ‘issues’, they all tolerate each others viewpoints and treat each other with dignity and respect. There are no toxic members of the tribe. Everybody laughs off the fluffs and ‘disasters’ as something to put in the collective scrapbook of family memories. And, most unbelievable of all … these wonderful people are the ones we’re actually related to by birth.

More often it seems like the truly special people are not connected to us by genetics, but rather by choice. It may not be ideal, but I’ll take it gladly. With thanksgiving, I’ll celebrate those special persons who are passing through my life quite by accident.

Here are two: 

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