Turkey Day

Thanksgiving is next Thursday. A day on which we give thanks for our blessings rather than commemorate the beginning of the genocide of the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims survive their first years on this continent. What are you the most thankful for this year?

By txholdup | 11/17/2011 11:57 AM | 6 comments

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I am thankful that I have 5 brothers and sisters and all are in good health and we all get along. My father died 2 years ago and left almost a million dollars for the 6 of us and his 13 grandchildren to split up. When I was young I had watched in dismay as my mother's family fought in court for almost 7 years over my grandfather's estate. We were shocked at how much money my dad left and cheerfully wrote each other checks for almost a year as the CD's he left in his and our names came due. Technically they belonged to each of us but we decided early on to split them among ourselves and we all did so. I have good health, a nice home which is almost renovated, a job that pays well and will most likely last for the 3 years more I plan to work. Have two great friends I have known for 35 years, an ex lover of 17 years I am still friends and am looking forward to retirement with glee.

txholdup 11/19/2011 12:30 PM

I am thankful ever day . I am thankful for my health, to have a home, and to have a job in these hard times, and I am thankful for my many friends and my family.

Claycountyman 11/19/2011 02:28 AM

I'm thankful to share day off with friends/family. I'm thankful I have nothing but good memories of Thanksgivings passed. I'm thankful for a decent life, even if I'm on the bottom 99%.

PDQuesnell 11/17/2011 08:17 PM

Unlike some people in the world where a celebration might provide a day to pay homage to a dictator in power, we took a higher course and set aside one day to observe the bounty of living in a great country like our's.

There is not a day that goes by that I do not give thanks for my family, my parents, my aunts and uncles, for my military career, and for the life I am fortunate to enjoy daily. Yet, recognizing that all lives are "full" and there are many distractions that divert out attention, it is still nice to have one day set aside that can serve as an opportunity for family to gather. It isn't that we need a reason to gather... it is just that it is nice there is a designated national day that gives us the opportunity to gather. In gathering we enjoy the fellowship of a great and traditional meal followed by activities of interest... Some will sit and watch a football game. Others will get on a computer and get in a game. Somebody will get out the cards and get a table game going. Others regale family with stories and life events. In so doing, one generation passes along its history and it's memories to another.

I am glad we have national days that, over time, have become traditional American days of observance. They serve to remind us of who we are as a people, they say something about our values as a people, and they help define the American culture in a healthy and useful way.

everysooften
west Michigan

everysooften 11/17/2011 05:05 PM

I don't need a special day to be thankful since I am thankful every day

you can have a nice meal with family any time the family is together
you can have a nice meal with friends any time the friends are together

I will be spending that Thursday working during the day and drinking beer and playing with my Wii during the evening, all the while being grateful that I have a place to live, clean clothes to wear, food in the fridge

just like every other day in my life

goodgrief 11/17/2011 01:34 PM

Call me a cynic, but I'm thankful we don't celebrate *that* Hallmark holiday here (though, in retrospect, we have an awful lot of needless religious holidays already. Another pointless celebration of gluttony, commercialism and extravagance masked with an excuse of togetherness and gratitude won't matter I suppose!)
On the other hand, I sure miss the Black Friday deals and cheap(er) consumeristic celebration of fall!

aliencubby 11/17/2011 12:11 PM