Cooking on the day before Thanksgiving

Thankful that for today, I can help and be helped, to have my cup filled and help fill another’s. 

Thankful for

Windy days

Sheets of rain

grey skies

puddles deep

that cause you to think

and remind you that you are alive.

Shopping and juggling

Talking about family,

Young boys and girls turned to adults,

That make you proud and

remind us that life goes on

And we too have grown if

Not outward, inward

Dishes,

Stirring spoons, salt

Sugar, cinnamon,

Filling the air as we talk

Falling into our hair

Sparkling on our skin

Sisters from around the

World making memories

Somehow as we cook

Together I realize it is

Much better than if we had

Cooked apart

We bent,

we turned

we squatted

we danced

we laughed

as we made a dinner

we made a long moment

to remember and

be thankful.