With American Thanks Giving being in November (My Canadian friends celebrated last month), I thought this would be a good month to write on being thankful.
I was consumed in a post Halloween candy hangover rivaling brown bottle flu yesterday and I was not thankful for anything save perhaps my Tums. So I didn’t write yesterday.
Today, I am thankful for my friends both real and slightly imaginary.
Now let’s talk about friends for a minute. With the advent of the internet we now have real life friends and cyber friends.
- I have 604 “Friends” on Facebook.
- I follow 341 people on Twitter including Ruth Buzzi, Melissa Gilbert, Jane Fonda and Steve Martin. (I use twitter simply as a tool to keep up with what’s going on in Tulsa.)
- I have 996 Followers. – I used to have over 1,000 but I wrote the word “Crappy” in on of my tweets and was quickly unfollowed by the morality police.
- I have around 50 blog subscribers.
- I subscribe to about 25 blogs myself.
- 17 people “like” my Facebook Fan Page
- There are 9 women in my online writers group
- One of my earliest childhood memories is a woman singing me lullabies at night. Mom says the house was haunted, my friends think it was my guardian angel, my therapist calls her my imaginary friend. Whichever, she was a comfort and I never forgot her.
- I have my life friends that I hang out with on a regular basis.
- From you guys who actually read my blog and comment — you give me great feedback and share pieces of your cyber selves with me. I’m thankful for that.
- From my twitter friends who are now Facebook friends – you know who you are. You are my writer friends. You guys share with me your journey and encouragement.
- From my comedy friends like TRL and miss C.R. – you taught me to care about life, art, politics, people, and myself. You guys teach me how to love myself by being willing to walk that walk yourselves. We don’t get to share mocha’s on each others back porch or call each other on the phone, but we do chat and we get to hang out when we visit each other’s cities.
- From my teachers whose classes I’ve been in whether it’s DCW, You Go Girl, SpeakUp, or Finding Your Own Voice. You teach me how to be a better speaker, a better writer, a better L-I-V-E-R of life. I heard recently a teacher had once is teacher for life. You listen to me, and speak back with wisdom, caring, and discernment. You share pieces of your life and stories with me that encourage me to find my own path and live fully alive.
And of course there are my kitchen friends. These are the men and women with whom I share meals, beer or wine, phone calls, disappointments and joys. Oddly none of them read my blog. They don’t need to they already know my life because they are living it with me. For them, I am especially thankful.
Deana O'Hara - Speaker, Comedian, Writer 
Found you through a search on giving thanks…. Like you I am blessed with many friends in real life and through technology. Some of us have gotten together to give #foodthanks. There is a website http://foodthanks.com that explains some of it & showcases tweets on the topic. We are also asking people who are joining it to post links through http://agchat.org/2011/11/food-thanks-perspectives.html — I hope you can join us and extend your thanks!
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It may be a good thing that we don’t live closer….do you realize how much trouble we would live in???????
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That is such a neat blog! One of the best I have read..ONE of them…you do have such a gift and I am thankful that you are utilizing it as well as growing through it. Just in the few years we have known each other, I have watched you bloom and become “that” special rose on the bush. Blessings to you and your precious family. You are truly special.
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awww. thank you. I just logged on to delete this because I thought it was too hard to follow. and here you are. Rena, you are so special in my life. I wish we lived closer. I love you to pieces girl.
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