The hustle and bustle of the holiday season is now upon us. But before planning what store to hit on the day after Thanksgiving, we thought it would be a good time for some contemplation today of the things in which we are grateful.

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan wrote a nice piece about her take on this season of gratitude, writing that it has been a rough year for many of us and we are just grateful for just being here and still standing.

It’s a column worth reading. Enjoy your Thanksgiving.

Still Here After a Rough Year

We’re serving up a new gratitude this Thanksgiving.

Last Thanksgiving, it looked as if a hard year was coming, and it was and it did. The holiday was shadowed by a sense of economic foreboding—Wall Street failing, companies falling and layoffs coming. It isn’t over—no one thinks it’s over. But the mood of this Thanksgiving looks to be different.

An unofficial poll of a dozen friends yields two themes: “We’re still here,” and, “I am so grateful.” Almost all experienced business reverses, some of which were deep, and some had personal misfortunes of one kind or another: “I am thankful that my mother’s death was fast and that she did not have to suffer,” wrote a beloved friend. But something tells me that a number of Thanksgiving dinners will be marked this year by a new or refreshed sense of gratitude: We’re still here. I am so grateful.

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