{"id":11122,"date":"2015-11-27T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2015-11-27T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T19:53:58","slug":"thanksgiving-with-vernon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2015\/11\/27\/thanksgiving-with-vernon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving with Vernon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was an unusual Thanksgiving for us. Well, not altogether. Anne spent many hours and her abundant culinary talents preparing a traditional feast that fairly overflowed the table and our respective limits. And I spent the early hours looking up and reading Thanksgiving proclamations, starting with Lincoln’s in 1863, then Washington’s in 1789, then by the governing council of Charleston, Massachusetts in 1676, and finally by the 53 surviving pilgrims at Plymouth in 1621. All were elegant and inspiring, with true thanks to the True Source in every case.<\/p>\n

Meantime daughter Allison had been making preparations to bring husband Vernon out of his care facility for a few hours of the holiday . . . a first in the year and a half since his accident. It was a big deal, his getting out, and he was as anxious about it as anyone . . . both positive and apprehensive.<\/p>\n

Along with Vernon, we also brought his roommate, defender and friend, Joe, also permanently in a wheelchair, but without the brain trauma.<\/p>\n

In all it was great, though not altogether easy. I want to keep this brief and refer you instead, if you have time, to Allison’s blog, posted the day before, anticipating it all. \u00a0It’s here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I do want to mention just this, however, that when it came for the thanksgiving meal prayer, Vernon was invited to do it. With eyes open but looking into space he started right in, giving thanks for Allison first of all, and her “open-hearted” love for him, his family, and all the food (though not for him–he’s still being fed intravenously). It was precious.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of photos, including of Vernon’s son Maki playing guitar, a couple of friends dropping in, and one with Joe, Allison and Justine.<\/p>\n

In all, in spite of all, and for all, we give thanks.<\/p>\n

\"Vernon-at-Doorway\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Vernon-w-friends\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Vernon-Joe-fam\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, for the fuller report, and many more photos, check Allison’s here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unusual Thanksgiving and traditional mixed . . . with much to be grateful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11131,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}