THB #438: Thankful: Episode 26

It is, as I sit here in my home in Los Angeles, hard to be anything but thankful this year.

Just yesterday, there was a mass protest of 1000 or so pro-Hamas people who marched through an outdoor shopping center within blocks of an orthodox Jewish neighborhood. But the mess all came and went within a couple of hours. It did more to disturb traffic than anything else. While that minor threat was happening, people were still suffering and dying in the conflict in Gaza. To be anything less than thankful for out comfortable berth would be gross.

The world is dangerous and this is a city with a painful number of homeless people on our streets and a shocking disparity in wealth from neighborhood to neighborhood… but the level of relative safety in most of the more-moneyed part of this city is a blessing and a comfort that should not be taken for granted.

I am thankful for my family… the immediate, the mid-range, and the distant. We had a family reunion this summer for my long-passed father’s…