Magical Milestones

We met at a U.S. Forest Service fire prevention training session on the campus of Central Washington University in Ellensburg during the summer solstice in 1978. Three months later, we were living together at Lake Wenatchee. On November 25, we married at the Little Chapel in the Woods in Leavenworth during Thanksgiving Week.

Ten years later, with his older sisters anxiously awaiting, our son arrived by home birth during Thanksgiving dinner. Now 40 years hence, we celebrated our anniversary with a trip to Italy and welcomed our first grandchild. As Henry David Thoreau noted: “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”