Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Our whole family was together for Thanksgiving, and we had a lovely day.  We went around the table giving thanks, and we all affirmed that politics will not make us negative about people.  Everyone helped cook, and everyone got down on the floor and played with the one year old.  We are all excited about the coming baby, now overdue a week, but bound to arrive next week.  We had a beautiful day and many took a walk among the fall folliage.  Yesterday we went to a museum with the eight year old, and walked around outside as well.  Then some of us went to a nursery for holiday ornaments, and then the crew had Greek food together at a cafe we could walk to.  This morning we sent our daughter and granddaughter off to the airport in pouring rain, but the two days that mattered were crisp and sunny.  Everyone's speech was careful, as our daughter is divorcing her husband, and his two sons were with their mother.  We know they will still be in our lives in some way, but we await our daughter's directions.  For her, she's feeling her way through a painful time, and may not yet know what she wishes.  But I dared to ask about the boys for the holidays and she said yes to sending them presents as I had planned.  Change is complicated and touchy and I think our family supported and loved without questioning.