THANKSGIVING DAY CELEBRATION

What am I most thankful for? It's the everyday things, of course...family, friends, good health, good weather, the beauty of nature, Nate Berkus, tea and chocolate!!!  Enjoy the day, this lovely video, and my music choice of Susan Boyle...

What we're really talking about 

is a wonderful day set aside 

on the fourth Thursday of November 

when no one diets. 

I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? 

~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 

26 November 1981

As we express our gratitude, 

we must never forget that the highest appreciation 

is not to utter words, 

but to live by them. 

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God's bounty in the year. 

String the pearls of His favor. 

Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! 

Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

~Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving Day comes, 
by statute, once a year; 
to the honest man it comes 

as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. 

~Edward Sandford Martin

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,

Patient of labour when the end was rest,

Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,

With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

~Alexander Pope