Very well stated. Same you you, Pit. Funny, you mentioned commercialism and I thought "Black Friday!!" At least we wait 'til the food's partially digested. 🤣
Took me a while after hitting 50 to start to take a deep breath and embrace this season in life. Be thankful for life's blessings and stop being so hard on myself for not being able to achieve more, do more to help, enrich the lives of my family and those around me in a more spectacular way, etc, etc... With every tough challenge I've faced in life, I've enjoyed this blanket of true freedom and a fighting chance to overcome, in what I still consider the greatest country in the world.
While we're all gathered around this table, I want to say thanks to all of you for sharing this journey through good and bad. Thank you for your patience every day, I know I can be a pain in the butt. Thank you for taking care of each other through all the things outside of football, thanks for talking people from the edge between the lines. A guess you can say we're "nameless, faceless" but we really are a pretty tight knit community... And I don't think there is anyone I would vote off the island. My best wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving to all of you out there in Dawgtalker Land.
My current blessing is a bit of a curse (not really lol). Going to Ireland and Scotland after cleaning up from the feast. NO Buckeyes game unless I can find a bar in Dublin (fat chance). NO Browns game in Belfast, there is a bar that shows NFL games, but the late start means a 9pm game time, and that means live entertainment instead. NO Browns game the following Sunday unless Aer Lingus' measly 1mbps will allow me to stream during the trip back home. Cheer extra loud for me, Dawgs! And be thankful we have something to cheer about this year, as strange as this whole journey has been so far.
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