U-Talk: What are you thankful for?

By Staff | Nov 21, 2022

: Jim Wilcock

: Dani Hansen

: Marty Bleggi

: Rodrigo Pereira

: Dee Gammon

Tiana Lao, Special to the Daily Herald

Jim Wilcock

“I am thankful for my family, my job, my health — because those are the things that make me the happiest. So I would say I’m thankful for those things because that’s what brings me the most joy. My family brings me joy because they provide support and love and comfort. My job, because I get to do something that I like, and my health because nobody wants to be unhealthy. I think sometimes we forget to think about those things. … I don’t know how often I think about what I am actually thankful for. I think a lot about the things I need, or the things that I don’t have, but I think it’s good to take a minute just to think about what I am thankful for and what I do have, so it’s a good reminder, and a good paradigm shift.” — Jim Wilcock, Vineyard

“I’m thankful for my family. I’m thankful to be able to be living in this beautiful place, and I love to feel that we are blessed in so many ways, and I’m thankful for that. I’m thankful for friends and for my healthy body, for heavenly father, for everything. Now I am moving in a new house. We are building a new home, and I’m blessed because I know that so many people don’t have what I have, what I have now. I’m blessed to be able to work and to have things in my life.” — Dani Hansen, Lindon

“My family, my friends, my job, health, the mountains, just anything I guess. Without family I don’t think that there’s much reason for life I guess. Without family, who do you turn to? Who do you ask for help? With the mountains, what’s more beautiful than looking at the mountains everyday?” — Marty Bleggi, Lindon

“Thankful? For life. Because every day you wake up is a great day. That’s it. Just live and be happy. Everything, you know? If you look around, there’s so much beauty in the world that you can just admire. You know this state that we live in is a great state, and if you get bored you wait five minutes and the weather changes. It’s always changing. It’s beautiful. Life is beautiful.” — Rodrigo Pereira, Pleasant Grove

“Family, my brother. Well, for right now, I’m looking for a place to live, and he just offered me to come live with him in his home, so he is giving me a place. … I haven’t been able to find a place, so he is kind of saving my bacon right now. They’re family, so they do stuff for you. I was able to live with and take care of my mom for many, many years until she passed last year, so I’m thankful for that too. For the time I was able to spend with her.” — Dee Gammon, Orem