[Oe List ...] Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life

[Evelyn Philbrook]

Dear Margaret,

Do you still have that magazine cover somewhere? Wow Turkey Talk cover girl!

Evelyn
James Wiegel wrote:
> Wouldn't we all JUST LOVE a picture of that Turkey Talk cover girl???
>
> Jim
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> --- On *Tue, 11/23/10, Margaret Helen Aiseayew 
> /<aiseayew at netins.net>/* wrote:
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>     From: Margaret Helen Aiseayew <aiseayew at netins.net>
>     Subject: [Oe List ...] Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life
>     To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>     Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 9:08 AM
>
>     What a delight this thanks giving from each one of us to another. 
>     I have been long enough alone now (with my own bathroom) that I
>     begin to think 'from time to time' that my life is measured in
>     empty toilet paper rolls.  Now they are taking the rolls out of
>     the toilet paper.  Searching for new ways to count, this reminder
>     of community will do nicely.
>      
>     Paula, you must have done the turkeys the years I wasn't at
>     Kemper.  I think the most I ever did was fourteen.  When Dad and
>     Dorothy came to visit, I think Dad was always a bit pleased that I
>     was doing the turkeys.  (For any who don't know, this Iowa farm
>     girl spent her years on the farm helping her father and
>     grandfather raise turkeys and was once the cover girl on Turkey
>     Talk magazine.  Most people have no idea how offended they should
>     be when someone calls them a turkey.)
>      
>     Since I have come back to Iowa, I have spent each Thanksgiving Day
>     working to get out a free Thanksgiving dinner with all the
>     trimmings.  We deliver to any who want a dinner.  People can come
>     and carry out.  There are whole families (three and four
>     generations) that come to share the common meal.  It is a joy to
>     listen to people's stories of both times remembered and times best
>     forgotten.  At the end of each year there has mysteriously been
>     enough money in the basket on top of the piano to do the next
>     year.  Abundance bouncing back.
>      
>     I am continuously thankful for the abundance in my life which you
>     all represent.
>     Blessings, Margaret
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