Steven Shomler Author

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am wishing each and every one of you a wonderful Thanksgiving marked by Love and Joy!

I am often reflective during the holiday season.

Looking back this has been quite the year for my wife KC and I – lots of Joys and lots of Challenges.

All of that being said – I still have an abundance of gratitude in my heart and much to be thankful for.

I came across this Thanksgiving poem from 1885 by noted Poet Hattie Howard, and it spoke to me:

Let Us Give Thanks

If we have lived another year�And, counting friends by regiments�Who share our love and confidence,�Find no more broken ranks,�For this let us give thanks.

If we have somehow worried through�The ups and downs along life's track,�And still undaunted can look back�And smile at Fortune's pranks,�For this let us give thanks.

If, since the last Thanksgiving-time�We have through adversity trod,�Yet with serene and smiling face,�For this let us give thanks.

Hattie Howard 1885

PS – I took that Oregon Coast photo at Oceanside, Oregon on Oct 27, 2025