Thanksgiving and Breast Cancer: When Gratitude is Hard
KAMLOOPS — *recommended listening while you read: Fall On Me – Andrea and Matteo Bocelli
For a variety of reasons, entering into Thanksgiving with a peaceful, open and grateful heart has taken significant effort for me this year. Whether by nature or by nurture I usually wear the title of a Realistic Optimist with relative ease, but lately I’ve been finding it more difficult to “look on the sunnyside of life”.
Between the heaviness I’ve been feeling and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I’ve been reminded of another Thanksgiving when rejoicing did not come naturally for me.
Growing up my best friend lived just down the hill and we were so inseparable that our parents eventually just accepted that they would have to share us on family holidays. We would fluidly move between our homes, often doubling up on meals and even having sleepovers on Christmas Eve.


