Tuesday’s column: Tell us why you’re thankful
Rochelle Loritts, pictured here during her daily walk at the Green Ridge Recreation Center, had a kidney transplant from her son, Jason Loritts in February 2011. "Thankful is not enough of a word for the love and care I have been given by my family, my significant other, Billy, UVa, many well wishers praying for me and my brave and loving Jason. ", wrote Rochelle. By Kyle Green | The Roanoke Times
For what are you thankful?
I put that five-word question to readers around this time every year, in advance of an annual “Thankful” column that runs each Thanksgiving Day. It never fails to produce a torrent of heart-warming and uplifting answers, as well as a few surprises.
Last year, Rochelle Loritts of Roanoke was thankful for a kidney, donated by her adult son, to replace both of her disease-ravaged ones. It wasn’t long before she was off dialysis and feeling like a new woman, walking 5 miles every week.
Thomas Allen sent a handwritten list, which he worked on for a long time.
It started with meeting his wife-to-be at a prayer meeting in the late 1940s. It closed with a story of leaving his wallet in a restaurant in 2011, and later getting it back. The Roanoke County man died the day after he sent the letter.
Families are a focus of much of your thanks. For many it’s hard to imagine life without them. But it’s in the specifics that we find the gems.
In 2009, Allison Rowland of Roanoke wrote that she might not have made it through a difficult divorce without unwavering support from her parents and brother, and her children, a “constant source of love and inspiration.”
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October 23, 2012 - 6:00 AM
I’d like to buy that lady a dog of her own.
i am thankful for my health….such as it is…..i am thankful i was able to work productively for the number of years i did and was able to assure myself and my family of a decent level of living…..i am thankful for the fact i have social security…..medicare and an employer funded supplement insurance program……i am thankful that the country i live in and love is secure from outside invaders…..i am thankful that finally the wars are ending…..and i pray a new one will not erupt……i am thankful for the brave men and women that serve to make me safe…..who lay down their lives every day for me…..i wish our senators and representatives would feel the same as our soldiers……i am thankful that our country seems to be moving forward…..even though the pace is slower than i would like…..i am thankful for my neighbors and friends…..who care… and i am proud and thankful for the children and loved ones i will leave behind…..it has been a wonderful life…..i would have it no other way that what it has been….and i am thankful for the fact that the creator has seen fit to allow me to have the woman i love and cherish….to spend the remainder of our lives together
I’m thankful that I can’t count all the ways/reasons that I am thankful.
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I’m thankful that Lance Armstrong has probably destroyed any chance he ever had of getting elected to public office. Oh. Wait a minute. He lives in Texas. He probably ENHANCED his chances of becoming gov.