Leave the door ajar and give thanks!

Remember the door can be ajar, but the jar is never adoor, Antoinette. 

Well America it's officially the start of the holiday season. The week of Thanksgiving begins our yearly tradition of finding what's in the back of the closet, the attic, the storage shed, under the bed, and in the dankest corners of the basement searching for decorations, grandma's silverware, and the Turkey platter. Don't mind the person hiding behind the computer screen in the basement...it's not Michael Myers🧟‍♂️, it's your millennial🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️. You'll recognize them by the skinny jeans, selfie stick🤳, ear buds, use of internet lingo, and reliance on hashtags to garner #relevance...yeah #metoo! Probably best to just ignore them, otherwise you might trigger🔫 them and then you'll just have to build an addition to your home as a safe space🏰. On the other hand the holidays🍗🎅 should be a time of togetherness not division. Family gatherings shouldn't be free for all's of discordance and divisiveness over first world problems🌎. It's time we start deflating the mountains🌋 into molehills🏝 where they belong. (I hope the use of the word deflating didn't trigger Tom B🏈! He's not a millennial is he? Hmm, well he does wear Uggs,🤔) Sorry. I lost track... where was I? Oh yeah... it's time we recognize how good we really have things. Unlike times when America🇺🇸 faced bigger problems, greater divisions, and were more concerned with "sticks and stones" than harmless words. We should remember to give thanks to those earlier Americans who gave all 🗽so that we can live our often silly lives, with petty arguments fought incognito behind social media outlets⌨🖱 with Google for a brain and where the ultimate death after puerile rants is an unfollow. Of course that's better than bloodshed, but that's because someone else's blood has given us this lifestyle. Ironic that many of the statues🗿 that cause such triggering are of those who risked their lives facing off with others while each had a finger on a trigger🔫⚔. You know... those willing to give "the last full measure of devotion!" In fact, since this is the 7 score and 15th anny of the Gettysburg Address📃, it's a good time to remember that the Great Man in Whiskers who really did deal with whole world problems, bloody divisiveness, and Civil War level partisanship saw past that and reminded us of our obligation to not let the sacrifice of the honored dead die in vain. Edwin Everett was the keynote speaker that day. He was a profound orator and gave a 2 hour speech. Upon hearing Abe's speech and the mixed review that followed afterwards based strictly along partisan lines, proclaimed "Lincoln said in two minutes what I couldn't say in two hours."👏 Of course the lesson here is to look past partisanship, take heed from the greatest two minute speech in history after the bloodiest battle in the Western Hemisphere, and remember family, friends and our fellow Americans come first🤜🤛. And the best way to give thanks, though I've taken a roundabout way to get to it is to open a bottle of wine🍾🍷🥂 and share with all no matter what their hashtag # of choice is. Never let your first world problem be lack of wine🙈🙉🙊😢, or a corkscrew for that matter.Time to bring family and friends together and talk Turkey🦃, how Pocahontas started welcome wagon (the real one not the faux one😉) and how much better it would have been if Cowboys🤠 and Redskins✋🛶 settled their differences on the gridiron. And after the game how about I open another bottle of wine 🍾and let's all play a game🎲. Who's up for millennial monopoly? 😂 Time to give thanks and come together America. Let's pass Go and collect $200, cuz we don't want to be a nation that becomes The Drifters, living Under the Boardwalk...

down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be

Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be fallin' in love
(Under the boardwalk) Yeah (boardwalk)