This is perhaps the best week of the year to stop, take a deep breath, and reflect taking stock of all our many blessings.
We have just come out of Thanksgiving, hopefully having friends and family over for a big meal, some down time and some time for reflection.
I usually write this column the week of Thanksgiving, but a week later, perhaps holds even more relevance for the unchartered waters ahead for all of us.
There is a lot we should all be thankful for in 2016 and with 2017 hiding just around the corner, it should be more important than perhaps ever to be thankful.
I mean to be truly Thankful.
First, let's all be Thankful for good health.
If you have good health, you simply do not value your good health enough.
If you don't have good health (or if you know someone who is ill, suffering or in declining health) there is little one can do to restore that person to a healthy condition.
Seldom is there a medical procedure, an insurance policy, or a public policy that can do that.
We need to be Thankful that others among us, doctors, nurses and others, work hard and truly want all of our residents' to live healthier lives.
We need to be Thankful to be living in the United States of America. Where else on this planet would you have as many freedoms, including the right to complain, not only verbally, but in the written word, to criticize this great nation of ours, without threat of retribution or being jailed?
As always, we all need to be Thankful to be living in Arkansas. I always find it interesting to discover people who really don't want to be living here. The roads are always open to other states.
In fact, I find, more times than not, the exact opposite. More and more people are Thankful to be moving to Northwest Arkansas every day.
We should be Thankful for the natural beauty that surrounds us. There was
Editorial on 11/30/2016