tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18733763.post1391785652127850674..comments2024-02-26T08:02:05.002-05:00Comments on Nitty.Gritty.: Thanksgiving Day~Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338865463777681078noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18733763.post-45611569360051892172007-11-24T17:58:00.000-05:002007-11-24T17:58:00.000-05:00i am so intriged by the responses to your current ...i am so intriged by the responses to your current poll. our generation really does "need" all of these things, don't we? we have . . . or perhaps our parents, in their attempt to give us everything they could . . . created a world for ourselves/us in which we don't just need, but i would go as far as to say, are addicted to these things. i know i am . . . at least to the TV. but what is so wild . . . while these things were made to give us entertainment and convenience, they tend to take away from the real things in my life. like music, and cooking, and naps, and talking to my husband rather than sitting next to each other on the couch - staring at a box. they take away from my need to make eye contact with and talk to the woman behind the counter at Target, because i am talking into a little rectangle that gets skinner and slimmer each year, so long as i update my two year commitment to the people who make my slim little rectangle work. these things save me from my thoughts, and prayer, and from listening to my heart, and from watching the world around me as i drive in my car - i don't have to do any of these things anymore! <BR/><BR/>thanks for posing this question the way you did. <BR/>"the thing you can't LIVE WITHOUT". wow! if i can ever answer say that i can't live without any of those three things, then it is time for me to reevaluate big time. thanks, as always, for being you!cara harjeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05633544149049073597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18733763.post-61320711001194957502007-11-23T17:59:00.000-05:002007-11-23T17:59:00.000-05:00I am glad that your Thanksgiving was blessed! I k...I am glad that your Thanksgiving was blessed! I know what that is like to be at home alone without your spouse... Mine is gone too and has been for sometime, I miss him so much! I am praying for your cousin's time that it goes by super fast and he comes home soon! Hopefully mine will be coming home the beginning of February!!!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13141710203567154793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18733763.post-60081976451388909902007-11-23T13:15:00.000-05:002007-11-23T13:15:00.000-05:00Hi Jody! Happy Thanksgiving to you too! I was ju...Hi Jody! Happy Thanksgiving to you too! I was just catching up on your blog a bit. <BR/><BR/>Blessings,<BR/>MelodySingerMamaMelodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13691422267348053334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18733763.post-79140668174977265632007-11-22T21:49:00.000-05:002007-11-22T21:49:00.000-05:00Happy Happy Thanksgiving to you Jody and your Nitt...Happy Happy Thanksgiving to you Jody and your Nitty.Gritty. family. I know that you know how wonderful a day it can be when you have so much to be thankful for, inspite of everything life throws us. I'm thankful to know you!!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12439473763172611283noreply@blogger.com