This was the best Thanksgiving ever! Not only was I with my  blood family (mother and two daughters, though we also have five stepchildren and three former foster children), but I was with all my Twitter and Facebook friends all over the world.

This was the first time I Twittered the making and eating of the turkey with so many others who made and ate turkey, as well as with people from other countries who didn’t know what Thanksgiving was all about and were curious. We all talked to teach other, educated each other, and kept each other company through happy or stressful holidays. I even saw a photograph of Dave Winer’s turkey.
For the first time, too, I followed my Facebook newsfeed to learn that Nov,22 was also the date of the Kennedy assassination. It was a reminder of a very important date in my life that has lately been ignored in the MSM, but is fresh in the minds of some people my age on Facebook (where last year there probably were NO people my age, including me).

Social media has enlarged and upgraded my world. I find myself connected to the most wonderful people, whose lives I follow, and who contribute joy and energy to my own life.

I hold out great hope for peace through understanding, coming soon to a neighborhood near you through social networks.