Henry Winkler, Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

Henry Winkler recently was interviewed by Tom Llamas of NBC nightly news. In that interview Winkler said his two words are, “Tenacity and gratitude. Tenacity takes you where you want to go and gratitude make the journey more comfortable, more palatable to travel.” The segment also covered his parents fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939, his dyslexia diagnosis at 31, and why he keeps writing children’s books. He is 81 years old now. You may remember him as the Fonz from the television series, “Happy Days”. As we approach Thanksgiving we should ponder a bit on Winkler’s words, tenacity and gratitude. We can think back to the early pilgrims. It was either tenacity or simply giving up. The new world was harsh with no conveniences. The Mayflower landed in 1620 with about 102 passengers. The first winter killed nearly half of them-disease, hunger, and the cold did most of the damage.

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