{"id":1089,"date":"2009-11-27T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/27\/thursday-night-giving-thanks\/"},"modified":"2009-11-27T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T06:38:00","slug":"thursday-night-giving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/27\/thursday-night-giving-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – giving thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve just pulled away from the table at a wonderful thanksgiving dinner at Max’s apartment in Brooklyn. \u00a0 Present are\u00a0 Diane, Max, Gabe. Will , Alex and me…\u00a0 It was a really peaceful day here.. Diane and I went for an early-ish walk down for bagels.. It’s fun sampling city life… <\/div>\n

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The city looked cool and beautiful this morning.. lots of cool surprises.. We came across this one place offering New Orleans style\u00a0 fried turkeys.. there was a line all the way down the street !<\/div>\n

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and signs of a prehistoric bird party.. turkeys ? <\/div>\n
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.. and many reminders.. <\/div>\n

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One thing I love about this neighborhood is hte mix of cultures.. THere’s a big Chassidic community here wiht all the store signs in Yiddish… <\/p>\n

and next store some of the coolest named small store front churches..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I saw many more than these.. just didn’t have my camera with me most of the day.. <\/div>\n

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At dinner was a<\/p>\n

feast of many cooks..<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 Gabe made the apple pie, Diane made lots of<\/p>\n

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Max made the fake turkey,<\/div>\n

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Will carved the real turkey. Most of the meal was vegetarian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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..\/\/. and I<\/p>\n

basically sat on the couch and watched (and I got most of the dishes. ) <\/div>\n

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Dinner was about 7.. it was perfect..casual, interesting food, great company.. <\/div>\n

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I substituted hot sauce for cranberry sauce..<\/div>\n

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It was wonderful hanging out with my family and our friends, <\/p>\n

We toasted Sam, our families, and absent friends (and a shout out to my friends at the Colony… as promised)..\u00a0\u00a0 We truly appreciate what we have.. and think about it every day.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I was always thankful .. but have been so much more mindful these past three years. <\/p>\n

Which reminds me.. I forgot to mention that yesterday marks the third anniversary of this blog. My first entry<\/a> was Nov 25, 2006.. just 4 days after Sam’s passing . and I’ve written every day since.. except for the days I was offline for the Colony.. Diane helped out there.. .. so I think there are only about 15 days missing. I sometimes o back and start reading form the beginning.. .
This has been such a source of healing for me.. and made such a connection for us to our firends and family during this tough period of our lives..\u00a0\u00a0 I remember last year at this time I was thinking of giving up writing.. but someohow.. I feel more energized about writing now than ever.. I guess I’ll keep at it daily for the forseable future…. I still find it helps.. <\/p>\n

Well.. we want to wish you all a peaceful and meaningful Thaqnksgiving..
Nite folks.. nite Sam.. we’re missing you Sam..
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We’ve just pulled away from the table at a wonderful thanksgiving dinner at Max’s apartment in Brooklyn. \u00a0 Present are\u00a0 Diane, Max, Gabe. Will , Alex and me…\u00a0 It was a really peaceful day here.. Diane and I went for an early-ish walk down for bagels.. It’s fun sampling city life… The city looked cool … Continue reading Thursday night – giving thanks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}