{"id":5875,"date":"2008-11-28T07:44:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2008-12-07T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:46:04","slug":"on-giving-thanks-the-thanksgiving-scenius-and-the-thanksgiving-scene-and-the-abundance-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5875\/on-giving-thanks-the-thanksgiving-scenius-and-the-thanksgiving-scene-and-the-abundance-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"On\u00a0giving thanks: The Thanksgiving Scenius and the Thanksgiving scene and the abundance of love"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was a tough week for our house for a few reasons. One is that I am working through a contract, a situation in which my ability to communicate with my clients was all but shut down. This was a first for me, and painful. I understood what was happening, but not necessarily why it happened. I knew I had to keep plowing ahead though, and Wednesday we finally got back on some solid ground, something to be thankful for and grow from.<\/p>\n

As bad as that was, the toughest thing we dealt with was a death. A teenager- a beautiful, intelligent, funny, and sweet child of 16, we had known her since she was 3, one of the few people in the world who was a friend to both of our kids, died in an automobile accident. She was a passenger on a sunny morning drive in the country, in a car with her girlfriends- cranking up the music, singing, goofing off, celebrating life with the joyous freedom that only teenage girls are capable of. I can’t help but smile when I picture a car full of girls, laughing out loud, full of life, full of hope, full of happiness… Then the driver ran a red light.<\/p>\n

She had moved to a small neighboring community, and we didn’t see much of her any more, still, the friends of your kids hold a special place in your heart- as any Mom will tell you. The tiny community she lived in was shaken to it’s very core. The ripple effect- so many families knew everyone involved- the girls in the car as well as the couple who had the green light and hit the girls. It will take years to heal from this, and yet, and yet… The viewing was full of life. Yes, young people came to say good-bye to their dear friend, but teenagers are life itself- it oozes from them, they can’t contain it. Memories and testaments to this child and the special place she held in the hearts of so many people were everywhere you turned and this funeral was Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was another home- my cyber home. The conversation was lively, and funny, and smart, and often over my head, but I was welcomed, and embraced, and contributed what I could. I found that I was connected to the living, to a world that is only possible because we each wanted to connect to someone else that morning, all for different reasons I’m sure, but my conversations on that Thanksgiving morning were as meaningful to me as the conversations I had later at Grandma’s home, and what I thought was going to be a connection without the raw emotions of the week, only made me realize how important this home, this Bloodhound home, and all the people I’ve met because of this place, how important you all are to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17539,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17539\/overnight-news-q-what-are-we-having-for-thanksgiving-a-redpills-all-you-can-handle\/","url_meta":{"origin":5875,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Q: What are we having for Thanksgiving? 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