Gratitude Is A Slippery Fish

It’s very hard to hold on to now, because you are always just missing it

Should I be able to extract more gratitude from what happened the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, two years ago? My mom had recently been diagnosed with cancer, there were no coronavirus vaccines yet, and we decided, as a family, that it was too risky for me to come home to visit her and my dad. But I decided to surprise them. I woke up, drove to Breakne…