and it was!

the virtues of this month are love and thankfulness. i am thankful today, for love.

i just got home from a heartwarming thanksgiving dinner with friends and family. indeed, i had not expected so lovely an evening (though i don't believe i expected anything in particular), and found considerable joy in seeing both new faces and old. there was excellent food (that i did expect), excellent singing, and an excellent game of taboo :). more than anything, i feel blessed to be surrounded by limitless love, from near and far. and so, today, i ask you god - grant me the strength to allow this same love to travel through me - uncorrupted - to all those around. may it remain so strong and so pure that it succeed in transforming the fiercest fear into lasting love.

this poem comes again to mind. thank you, cummings!