Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I’m going to take today and following few days to slow down and relax, look around me with a careful and thankful eye, and reflect on what I have to be thankful for.<\/p>\n
I am thankful for my friends and family—for their love, loyalty, and support. I am thankful for where I live. I am thankful for a warm, dry home, access to good, healthy food, clean water, and a fuzzy, sometimes-affectionate cat named Donut. <\/p>\n
I am thankful for my community. Cambridge is a great place to live. We have wonderful public and social services, a thoughtful municipal government, a vibrant and diverse population of interesting and often friendly people, good jobs, good bars—here’s looking at you, the Abbey<\/a>— fun when you want it, quiet when you need it, tall trees, wild turkeys<\/a>, fluffy bunnies, and four full seasons<\/a>. I’m thankful for all of it. <\/p>\n And I am thankful for my state. I am both proud and horrified to say that Massachusetts was the only state in the lower forty-eight to vote Democrat everywhere on the county-level in the last presidential election. (Apparently, Hawaii did, too<\/a>.) <\/p>\n As all parts of the country, folks in Massachusetts are hurting, too. I am thankful that my neighbors across the state voted against solutions that promote finger pointing, blame, and hate to ease their pain. I am thankful that in Massachusetts we voted to protect our environment, to fight for women’s rights, black rights, immigrant rights, Muslim rights, gay rights, and general civil rights<\/strong>, and to dignify people with the basic rights to health care, equal pay for equal work, and higher wages.<\/p>\n Are you thankful for you local and state governments?<\/p>\n On this day of thanksgiving, I hope you are, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I’m going to take today and following few days to slow down and relax, look around me with a careful and thankful eye, and reflect on what I have to be thankful for. I am thankful for … Continue reading