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Happy Thanksgiving

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In Canada, today is Thanksgiving Day, so …

… wherever you are …

… whatever you are doing …

… I hope you’re able to spend it in the way you would like …

… with an opportunity to appreciate…

… all that we are.

49 thoughts on “Happy Thanksgiving”

    1. Thank you very much, Phil. Yes, I am aware. It has its origin in the harvest celebrations of the First Nations, including the centrepiece of the feast, the North American turkey. Apparently, the first one occurred in 1578 when an indigenous family group in Arctic Canada saved explorer Martin Frobisher and his crew from starvation. If they had any inkling of what was to come, they probably would have let him starve!

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  20. Beautiful photos. … As for Thanksgiving, too many people are choosing between which necessity of life they can afford.

    Meanwhile, the more that giant-grocer corporations make, all the more they irresistibly want to and likely will make next quarter. It’s never enough. No wonder food banks are strained. Unmet food needs are exacerbated by price inflation, while corporate profits and payouts to CEOs correspondingly inflate.

    Ergo, I would gladly give thanks — if everyone else on Earth had enough clean, safe drinking water, nutritional food and societal stability to maintain a normal, healthy life. But, for now …

    Pass me the holiday turkey, peas
    and the delicious stuffing flanked
    by buttered potatoes with gravy
    since I’ve said grace with plenty ease
    for the good food received I’ve thanked
    my Maker who’s found me worthy.
    .
    It seems that unlike the many of those
    in the unlucky Third World nation
    I’ve been found by God deserving
    to not have to endure the awful woes
    and the stomach wrenching starvation
    suffered by them with no dinner serving.
    .
    Therefor hand over to me the corn
    the cranberry sauce, fresh baked bread
    since for my grub I’ve praised the Lord
    yet I need not hear about those born
    whose meal I’ve been granted instead
    as they receive naught of the grand hoard.

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  24. Beautiful set of captures to highlight the beauty of the fall colours. Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving as well. We hosted my family on Saturday and went to the in-laws on Sunday. Yesterday was a nice quiet day where we could spend around the house.

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    1. Thank you very much, Linda. Yes, we had a lovely Thanksgiving on Sunday. Sounds like you were very busy with family which is really great but it’s also nice to have a bit of time to ourselves, too. Have a good week. Cheers.

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