While learning from history is both important and something we all too often fail at, IMO the meaning we attach to an event like Thanksgiving now is much more relevant to our daily lives than the origins of the holiday. Whether or not the pilgrims and native americans came together for a joyous harvest celebration in the spirit of friendship doesn't add or detract from the fact that this Thanksgiving I'm going to be surrounded by family and friends and giving thanks for the life I've been blessed with.
Whether or not the pilgrims and native americans came together for a joyous harvest celebration in the spirit of friendship doesn't add or detract from the fact that this Thanksgiving I'm going to be surrounded by family and friends and giving thanks for the life I've been blessed with.
HEAR HEAR!!!
Does anyone celebrate a single holiday exactly the same way the originators did?? Most of our holidays have had their origins or accepted celebratory traditions skewed by one social or economic influence or the other. It's the spirit of the holiday that survives the test of time, because that's the important part.
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
Oh good grief! Why so negative?
The purpose of Thanksgiving is to give thanks for what we have. Why anyone should feel some kind of guilt or sorrow for what some Spaniards did to some Frenchmen, or some other religious nut did to someone else hundreds of years ago is completely beyond me. Learn from history, don't dwell in it! On Thursday look around you, find the good things in your life today, and take some time to celebrate them because if you live in America you've got a lot of things to be thankful for no matter how bad you think you have it.
You can feel as guilty as you want the next day as you read the scale.
You know what, TAH? That was good enough to make me feel I was right to take you off my "ignore" list.
From Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
to "They're Rioting in Africa" by the Kingston Trio and Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park", The Angry Hiker is part of a great tradition.
Keep it up, TAH. Just don't let me hear any more s*** about blowing up my Ice Caves.
Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!
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Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!
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Mooooo! Btw, love your freaky turkey avatar. 
In the spirit of the season, I'd say.
From Jonathan Swift's 
