Where Does The Time Go?

It’s hard to believe that I posted the first two blogs in the same month, much less just over a week apart. It is the day before Thanksgiving and I’m just now noticing this. Between substitute teaching and working at the hardware store, I tend to loss track of days, even weeks when attempting to keep myself focused on the business. Teaching has its amazing rewards helping young people learn something completely new outside or within themselves, or just being there with an ear or a shoulder. Even working at the hardware store helping people put together an electrical or plumbing puzzle, or just replacing their watch battery is quite gratifying.

So, today I focus on being grateful.

I am grateful for the opportunity to help others: in a school setting, the hardware store, or simply holding the door for someone with their arms full. And it is completely acceptable to feel pleasure in doing such things. Helping others should be pleasing.

I am also grateful for all of the help that others regularly bestow upon me. Friends, family, colleagues. I could spend days mentioning individuals from my home town to friends literally around the world. This world has provided me with some incredible experiences in the more than five decades that I have explored other cultures, various occupations, studies, music, love, solitude, joys, pains and all those heartbreaking things that make us human. And all of them come with memories filled with people. Thank you.

Finally, to step back into the subject of mead, I am thankful for the many, of whom I mention often, who have pushed, prodded and kept me going. With the inclusion of McFarland Liquors, we are now in five locations. I plan to add at least two more by the end of the year, and many more next year. I am thankful to Joseph and those at Mershon’s Cidery for their assistance with the production space and business knowledge that has allowed us to get outside of my house and into the marketplace.

To mis-appropriate a meme: I don’t always say thank you, but I need to do so more often.

Stay grateful, my friends.

Happy Thanksgiving and all the best for all the holidays you may celebrate during this season.