{"id":182,"date":"2023-11-21T10:35:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2023-11-22T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:41:28","slug":"give-thanks-but-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/give-thanks-but-never-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Thanks, but Never Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMAG157-scaled.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since 1989, Thanksgiving has been a bittersweet holiday for me.\u00a0 34 years ago, I lost my adopted Mom to cirrhosis of the liver and other complications.\u00a0 Suffice it to say, her passing wasn&#8217;t easy on a lot of levels, and I still remember pretty vividly what happened on Nov 22 that year.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to relate it here, because it&#8217;s not a story I need to share in detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-183\" src=\"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-135x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-768x1705.jpg 768w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-692x1536.jpg 692w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-922x2048.jpg 922w, https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-01-20-09.16.38-scaled.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a>Of course, to add insult to injury, on Nov 23 of last year, I lost my cat Rochester to a tumor.\u00a0 \u00a0His passing hit us both pretty hard, and though we both dote on and love Bella to pieces, we both most definitely miss her big brother all the more.<\/p>\n<p>I was relating this to a friend of mine this afternoon while I was on lunch, telling her that this is a very difficult ane melancholy time of year.\u00a0 She sympathized, but reiterated I still have a lot of things to be both thankful for, and things to celebrate even though it&#8217;s not\u00a0<em>the best of times<\/em>.\u00a0 Which I agree with, one can still mourn the loss of those close to us, and still manage to remember there are good things still to be had, and good things to come with the people we have in our lives now.\u00a0 And in the future.<\/p>\n<p>RIP Mom, RIP Rochester.\u00a0 Miss you both, now and always.\u00a0 I know you&#8217;re both looking over us and making sure we&#8217;re ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since 1989, Thanksgiving 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