What are you thankful for? The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines "thankful" as 1: conscious of benefit received, 2: expressive of thanks, and 3: well pleased. So what are you well pleased about? Which benefits have you received that you are conscious of?
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Observed annually on the fourth Thursday of November
Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season, is an annual American Federal holiday to express thanks for one's material and spiritual possessions. The period from Thanksgiving Day to New Year's Day often is called the holiday season. Most people celebrate by gathering at home with family or friends for a holiday feast.
Thanksgiving generally is considered secular, or at least nonsectarian, and is not based on any specific religious canon or dogma. Though the holiday's origins can be traced to harvest festivals that have been celebrated in many cultures since ancient times, the American holiday has religious undertones related to the deliverance of the English settlers by Native Americans after the brutal winter at Plymouth, Massachusetts.*
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A brutal winter in Massachusetts. Yeah right. Wait'll they get a load of a Saskatchewan Winter. There being thankful means "hey, the car started", and "Oh good, the tires have gone back to being round again".
ReplyDeletePilgrims. "snort"! Theres a good reason they were booted out of England. They were thankful all right...thankful they weren't killed of hand by the natives.
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Regards from a frost bitten STAG.