Up here in Canada we actually do this one right… we put a little more distance between Thanksgiving and Christmas than you Yanks do. I suppose Americans might tell me I’m full a beans and that’s okay… it’s what ya grew up with in things like this.
As a kid the holidays were light, happy affairs that ya didn’t think much about. The adults behaved themselves, the kids didn’t. As I got older that seemed to change. Maybe I changed? I dunno, I just started looking at these people and wondering what in hell was wrong with them. They looked at me the same way and I started wondering what the point of all this was.
I read this one by du Toit and it just sounds fake in my ears. Maybe back in the 70s ya might be able to open up your home to strangers. I personally won’t do it today, and would never go into a strangers home. There’s too much lunacy, evil and wickedness out there walking the earth and it’s getting worse. If you must be altruistic a better thing to do (in my opinion) is maybe help out at the local soup kitchen for the homeless or something like that. I dunno… sharing thanksgiving with strangers in a family setting wouldn’t feel right to me. Thanksgiving is not about family, or random acts of kindness to strangers that you’ll probably flip off in traffic the next day…
Then I saw this one and I think Z nails it. Thanksgiving is not about family so much as it is about being grateful. I never really got that message about this holiday despite it being front and centre all my life. It always seemed to be about food and family and time off.
Hmpppfpfppffff. Might as well help my fat Canadian arse to a second Thanksgiving, eh? I’m sure you Yanks won’t mind me bellying up to your table?
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Today I will give thanks to my Maker for everything. I am thankful for my health, my wife and my dawgs. I am thankful for the folks that stop in at the Thunderbox. I am thankful that I have a roof over my head, food on my plate, and toys in the basement. I am thankful that some of you have blogs and will share your lives and thoughts with me. Most of all, I am thankful for my spot on this earth and the people that make it a good one.
I hope you all find your Thanksgiving fulfilling, and that your holiday season is off to a great start.
Thanks for stopping in.
Somebody wise said "you cannot change the world, but you can change your reactions to it".
ReplyDeleteSomeone also wise said "Piss off a lefty, BE HAPPY".
Ya I agree. Now we will see if my comment posts cause mine never seem to now again. But Happy Thanksgiving Filthie!!!
ReplyDeleteWe got ya, PP! If I delete one of your comments it is by accident only. I am only blocking the spammers.
DeleteA good looking sandwich. Although havarti also makes a nice melt.
ReplyDeleteOh man... a proper cheese sammich with the right trimmings will match a turkey dinner any day of the week, and will be 10 times easier to prepare...
DeleteEat shit iceback herring choker.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving Aesop!
DeleteGF, you are welcome in my home anytime sir!
ReplyDeleteI had strangers over for Thanksgiving Dinner about 20 years ago. I've had single friends as guests within the last 10 years, We used to invite more folks over, than we do now.
ReplyDeleteBut, not sure I'd have anybody who I did not know well over now.
As you said, Times have changed.
skwab, it may be that you will soon enter the years in which you will be the honored invitee. shoe will be on the other foot!
DeleteThere are always friends on their own that need company from now until after Christmas. They're welcome here anytime.
ReplyDeleteAnd there will be more, as the next few years come upon us. Do what you can for them.
I was a young 24 year old subaltern in Yellowknife. The general commanding Northern Region Headquarters invited me to his home for (Canadian) Thanksgiving Dinner. One of the older, single captains who was also invited advised me to pick up a bottle of wine for the general and flowers for the general's wife (which I did). I still have fond memories of that place.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, I read your blog daily.
ReplyDeleteWell sir, I'm happy to come and visit. And you are welcome by my fire anytime. I just like honest folks, even if they speak foreign languages, eh?
ReplyDeleteThankfulness is the point. Giving thanks today that a lost family member was found alive, that I can still make decent snap decisions, and I have good people to interact with. (That would be you and the commenters here).
Merry Thanksgiving to us all.
Back in 2009, I was working up in Canada and staying in a residential type hotel. I had not known that Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving in October, so it was a surprise to me that they were planning on shutting down the hotel for that weekend since everyone else staying there had plans to travel home for their celebrations. I worked out a deal with the hotel and they let me stay by myself - all the lights were turned off and I couldn't leave the building because all of the exterior doors were going to be locked.
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving day afternoon, there was a knock on my door - it was the hotel manager (whom I had never met previously). He was there with a large plate from his home table for me to have for Thanksgiving. I won't forget that for a while. A stranger going out of his way to make sure a stranger had a meal on Thanksgiving.