Happy Thanksgiving 2008
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your loved ones! We’re taking it easy here in the Wiman castle – well I’m taking it easy. MrsDoF is baking Pumpkin dessert squares right now and a turkey later. Give ‘em all a hug, pet the cat, throw a stick for the dog, forgive offense, and have a great day.
Thanksgiving is a curious holiday. Leading up is a frenzy of food shopping, and following is a cacophony of commercialism. Tomorrow all the big-box stores will offer crazy deals on electronicrap of nebulous necessity. One stalwart soul is already – since yesterday – camping out in front of Best Buy to get a laptop for four hundred bucks or something. Geez, people, never heard of eBay? We are staying home on Friday. Depending on the weather I may go riding my bike North of town.
- Les Jenkins at Stupid Evil Bastard answers the question: “Who is an atheist thankful to on Thanksgiving?”
- Jake Young has stories of Thanksgiving In The Emergency Room
- As a Thanksgiving celebration, Ed Brayton posted the “Turkeys Away” skit from WKRP In Cincinnati. Enjoy!
Happy Thanksgiving DOF! We’re celebrating tomorrow when my son and daughter can both be home. Have a great time biking tomorrow…
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, DOF!
Happy turkey day! Say high to your family for me and enjoy those pumpkins squares!
Happy Thanksgiving, George!
Actually, you will have a quiet Friday afternoon for activity of your own choosing.
I am going to a Baby Shower with two knitted hats in the gift bag.
Isn’t the “thankfulness” celebrated on Thanksgiving an undifferentiated intransitive sort of self-awareness sort of thing, a consciousness of how fine it is to have good things and people in one’s life? I never took it as a thankfulness “to” anyone or thing. But that’s just me. It is so easy to get caught up in the distressing and disappointing things in one’s life, and in the world, and a day of shaking that off is a good thing, most especially in the company of people one cares about, but even if on one’s own.
Do I have plenty to eat and a person in a famine-stricken and poor area of the world does not because some overarching “deity” likes me better than that person? I doubt it.
Indeed, if the reason I enjoy plenty while others starve is an all-powerful god playing favorites, wouldn’t that kind make the universe a darker, more malevolent place? Better to just be thankful that we happen to be where the food is, and work for more intelligent global social policy.