Justin Silverblade Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 (edited) Hello all! For those of us in Canada, today's Thanksgiving! So, for everyone out of school, hope you're having fun. For everyone working - enjoy the Stat Pay. For everyone who doesn't normally do anything on mondays anyways.... well, happy holidays. I hope that everyone has/had a great day and weekend, with family, friends and (hopefully if you're like me) lots of great food. Happy Thanksgiving! - Justin PS - we don't have a turkey Smilie. *gobble, gobble* Edited October 13, 2003 by Justin Silverblade
Tamaranis Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 There's just so much food here right now... It's beautiful.
Ayshela Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 Happy Thanksgiving to all of you north of the border! And thank you for reminding me to stay home today - holiday traffic through here is horrid!!
Salinye Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 OHHHHHH I LOVE Thanksgiving! I wish I had known! I'd celebrate it as many times a year as I could get away with!! Well, we are indeed thankful for our Canadian neighbors!! Enjoy your Thanksgiving!!! *gobble gobble* ~Salinye
Vigil StarGazer Posted October 14, 2003 Report Posted October 14, 2003 PS - we don't have a turkey Smilie. *gobble, gobble* that's probably because turkeys are not happy being slaughtered and roasted into tender moisturizing juicy flavour. Thanksgiving is a wonderful tradition in memory of the time the Europeans comes to America not being prepared for the cold harsh winter... and then the friendly natives rescued them by providing them food. In return the europeans took their land, spread disease around and finally confined their decendends into reserves and slowly whitewashing them... Yes happy thanksgiving indeed.
Regel Posted October 14, 2003 Report Posted October 14, 2003 It still provides us with the opportunity to appreciate what exactly we all have to be thankfull for. I too enjoy Thanksgiving for the quieter holiday that it is. Wishing all of you a peaceful day, the love of your family and the grace of god.
Peredhil Posted October 14, 2003 Report Posted October 14, 2003 Yup. I'm grateful that despite being ill-prepared, despite having genetically more vicious germs than the isolate gene pool of "Native Americans"(although it's looking as if they were immigrants too, just much earlier), I'm grateful that despite all that, the Amerindians opened their hearts and larders in a wonderful display of giving. Giving which really had no thought of return, or foreknowledge of what might happen. I'm not going to let the fact they got sick detract from this shining moment I cherish, for that would cheapen their gift, and imply that the settlers knew what would happen. I'm not going to let the fact that the settlers were ill-prepared detract from this life-giving gift, for they had absolutely no frame of reference by which to judge and prepare for the situation, nor the resources to have bought the materials anyway, yet they left security and the known and had the courage to change their lives and chance the unknown. I'm not going to get into the lives or wars of the settlers, nor the Amerindians, nor any of the others of that time, for they were all human beings, and therefore if we look we can find murderers, adulterers, thieves, and all the other problems of a society. If we look. But if we choose to rise above fingerpointing at what exists everywhere humans gather, in any time of any society of the world - Then we can celebrate people rising about the pettiness, we can celebrate unselfness, we can celebrate giving. I don't have to deny the frailities of being human to celebrate life. I embrace humanity, knowing what it is, and find triumph everytime someone ignores perfectly natural selfishness to help someone else. I am grateful for Thanksgiving.
Ayshela Posted October 14, 2003 Report Posted October 14, 2003 and i am grateful for Peredhil, who says things MUCH better than i would have.
Savannah Posted October 14, 2003 Report Posted October 14, 2003 I am also grateful for Peredhil and for Thanksgiving and for all the wonderful people on this board. But I guess I can wait for November and our Thanksgiving to get all mushy.
Canid Posted October 14, 2003 Report Posted October 14, 2003 (edited) Stuffing should not have nuts in it. When I cook a thanksgiving dinner some day... I will not put nuts in the stuffing. .... and isn't the rubber chicken close enough to a turkey? Oh... and a belated happy thanksgiving to all who celebrated it yesterday. We had pheasant... ...it tasted like bird. Yummy, yummy bird. Edited October 14, 2003 by Canid
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