Today most Americans will be stuffing their faces while watching football and giving thanks for what we have. I call it a fake holiday but don’t deny I enjoy getting together with family and friends to celebrate.
I am most thankful for my wonderful daughters & amazing wife. It is a good time to reflect on what you have and what others do not.
Whatever you do & whomever you do it with, don’t forget to be a gracious host or show gratitude to your host.
I hope you all have a great day of celebration. I am very thankful for this community and all you have taught me & the acceptance you have shown me. Cheers!
The Remains
I know I’ve posted this one before but I think it’s the best gratitude song I’ve ever heard.
Natalie Merchant – Kind And Generous
Thank you
More Sly and the Family Stone
Fun fact: Thanksgiving didn’t originally have a designated day when Lincoln first signed it into law. The going tradition was to hold it on the 4th Thursday. Then came the Great Depression and FDR decided to declare that it would be on the 3rd Thursday to jump start the Christmas shopping season to give the economy a goose. The problem is that it had no legal force so a lot of states had it on the 4th while others had it on the 3rd. People called it Franksgiving. Eventually congress formalized it on the 4th Thursday.
Sam and Dave – I Thank You
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Hope you holiday was stress-free. As a certain kind of Deadsplinterite, stuck in the 1980s that I am, I want to say this to all of you:
A little trivia: Estelle Getty, who played “Ma”/”Sophia Petrillo”, was actually one year younger than her daughter, Bea Arthur, “Dorothy Sbornak” and Betty White, “Rose Nyland.” Rue McClanahan was actually the baby of the group, having been born in 1934. Bea and Betty were born in 1922 and Estelle in 1923.
As a fan of mismatched parent/child on-screen relationships (Lorne Greene’s father character was in real life seven years older than Ava Gardner’s daughter character in Earthquake, one of my favorite movies, for example) I was delighted to learn this. The gold standard, of course, is Angela Lansbury being three years older than her “son,” Laurence Harvey, in The Manchurian Candidate. But if you ever saw Oliver Stone’s Alexander, and you really should, it’s unintentionally laugh-out-loud funny, Angelina Jolie is in real life only one year older than her “son,” Colin Farrell, both wildly miscast.
Thank you for reading my post-Thanksgiving TedTalk.
I am thankful for the Argos upsetting the BlueBombers in the Grey Cup and that all you DSers know what irony means.