Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Eve

The night before is the eve of a special day.

And tonight folks it is the United States of America’s night before Thanksgiving!

A holiday that has its origins in a feast shared by colonists and Native Americans at Plymouth Massachusetts in 1621; and so if wish for more info just copy and paste: http://www.allabouthistory.org/thanksgiving-history.htm

But it is not an international holiday.

I was surprised to find that only a few countries celebrate it, Canada being one of them, but theirs is a month earlier than ours.

Live and learn.

Until recently I never thought about it, that is whether other countries felt the desire to party due the abundance of the harvest of crops.

But we have turned it into a being thankful for more than that, since that is the American way of doing things we so enjoy elaborating… and so children and adults alike have a tendency to say while seated at a long table, prior to consuming their bounty, what they are most thankful for.

It has nearly become a religious experience with much thoughtfulness of most comments.

Although of the years many take the time to be a wee bit silly.

Example: Being thankful for having a new alarm clock that is sure to wake them early enough to make it to the malls to be the first in line for ‘Black Friday’, the day after!

(For any international people who don’t know what ‘Black Friday’ is, it is the demarcation for the start of Christmas shopping!)

Or for being on the winning team in a sport or having the winning ticket for the lottery or thankful for not being the shortest in class or the tallest or… you get the idea, silly things.

But some people are thankful for health, love, family, succeeding at a job and the like.

Intriguing turn of events.

We as a nation have always been thankful for what has come our way in spite of devastating odds at times and I suppose if we all come around to realizing, if only once a year, but I am sure for most it occurs to them more, as much as daily.



I am pretty sure though this is just as refreshing to know that we all can find something to be thankful for once a year even if it is just a minute detail but special in its own way to us.



How the day become one of gluttony and football is beyond me… but I'm not that smart.

On that note of well, you know me...

Everyone please whether you celebrate the Thanks or the giving parts of the day... remember to count those blessings and share those overages...HEY WAIT! HOLD THE PRESSES! I ASK YOU TO CELEBRATE THANKS AND GIVING NIGHTLY RIGHT HERE! How about that? LOL!And of course we will too!

And so continue...GOOD JOB PEEPS!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

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