What will you give thanks for today?

Your family?

Your friends?

Your health?

Your church?

Your job?

Our freedoms as Americans?

Those are among the things for which I’m thankful and that I’ll keep in mind today.
I’m also thankful for the laughter that my family and I share.

Sure, we have our moments that aren’t always that harmonious, but those don’t last. The good times — those times that almost always include a good laugh or two — are the ones that last, that stick in our memories and that are talked about for many years afterward.

I love hearing my kids and wife laugh, and I enjoy laughing with them, especially when they’re laughing at me.

Laughter’s a great thing.

It helps us share our senses of humor. It helps us say “I love you.” It helps us smile. It helps us share our joy and ease our fears.

And there’s more than our own anecdotal evidence that laughter is good for us.

A recent University of Maryland study contends the old saying about laughter being the best medicine is true. It reports that the blood pressure of those studied dropped while watching comedies. So don’t feel as though you’re wasting time today if you log onto the “WKRP” Thanksgiving episode where Art Carlson utters those famous, belly-shaking words, “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” What a hoot.

I’m thankful my family and I will share a heaping helping of laughter just as we’ll share a hearty holiday meal when we gather this afternoon.

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