There’s a lot to be anxious about these days.
Terrorism around the world punctures our sense of security, and prompts xenophobic backlash against our neighbors and those seeking protection from this very sort of terror.
Climate change threatens the world we will hand our kids.
Growing inequality makes it harder for people just to get by.
We struggle across racial divides, as we see video of yet another young African-American man killed needlessly in an encounter with police, and violence comes to those protesting peacefully to change an unfair system.
And at times, the changes in our communities – new development, skyrocketing rents, rising homelessness – make us feel we are losing our neighborhoods.
So I’m glad that Thanksgiving is here, to remind us of all we have to be grateful for.