Don't forget to let tales of your blessings flow

Sunday's lunch honoring area veterans bought home how many blessings I have — my family, friends, freedoms, abundant food, a warm place to live, are just a few.

No matter how bleak life sometimes looks, if we really want to, we can find a way to count our blessings, to realize how much for which we have to be thankful.

The Bee is still accepting submissions from readers of all ages, from all walks of life, on hings that they're thankful for so we can share that with our North Idaho audience. It's compelling, it's uplifting, and we think it's an annual exercise most appropriate for this time of year.

Children's drawings and colorings are welcome.

Poems are fine if that's the best way for you to express your blessings.

A hand-written note, an e-mail, however you want to send it to us, we'll gladly accept them all.

Send us your Thanksgiving blessings and we'll publish as many as we can over the rapidly approaching holidays.

The deadline to submit your blessings is 5 p.m. Friday. Send them to Caroline Lobsinger, Box 159, Sandpoint, ID 83864; or by e-mail to clobsinger@bonnercountydailybee.com.

Caroline Lobsinger is the managing editor of the Daily Bee.