Thanksgiving

 

What do you think about/of when you hear the word THANKSGIVING?

• Food
• Family
• Gratitude
• Transportation
• Christmas is a month away
• Football
• Work Holiday
• Alcohol

The "first Thanksgiving" was a three-day harvest festival in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, involving the Wampanoag people and the English colonists, known as Pilgrims

We, in general, don't think about the first Thanksgiving unless we are in K-12.  If we are in college or university, we are thinking time away from school, exams, or time at home.

Those of us who attend church on a regular basis are no doubt exposed to being grateful that we are living or have survived something, but that feeling happens all year long not just around Thanksgiving.

For me during my first marriage and part of my second marriage, Thanksgiving was a time that if we were close enough to family, then it was entirely possible that we would be eating two Thanksgiving dinners, one at the wife's parents and one at my parents.  

Yes, it was true in my second marriage as well up until the year that her mother died, then my father, then my mother...  at that point, we always spent Thanksgiving at home.

As my second wife's son aged and found a significant other, we have been spending Thanksgiving with them.  We have gone to their house, we have gone out for the meal, but this year, they are coming to our house, and we are dividing up the meal so that one family is not burdened with it all.

For me personally and because of my health issues, Thanksgiving really is a time for me to give thanks because MEDICINE is keeping me alive.