<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0078 Thanksgiving Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A celebration of the grace<br>of the past, or<br>a celebration of the grace<br>of today? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thousands of years, <br>the Native Americans<br>whose origin is so mysterious<br>held, as do all the peoples in the world, <br>a celebration of the harvest<br>now brought home, rejoicing<br>in its abundant wealth and<br>offering gratitude to that source<br>from which it comes - as do we...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how ironic, looking back, <br>that the Pilgrim Fathers, unprepared, <br>as many townsfolk among them were, <br>for the art of farming in a foreign land, <br>were taught, from those thousands of organic years<br>of experience, by those very native Americans -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wouldn't you like to have seen, been there, <br>that day in 1621, as settlers<br>and the invited Indian chiefs<br>sat down together to celebrate the harvest<br>in brotherhood? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, today: beside remembrance of the past, <br>how beautiful to dedicate a day<br>to thinking, listing, all the many things<br>which we may be truly grateful for.<br>Will a day be long enough? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's said, that every year<br>the day after the Thanksgiving feast<br>the wild turkeys of America, gathering, <br>as Native Americans of ancient, brown-faced line, <br>with lively turkey-trot and song and<br>stuffing themselves in rather<br>more natural ways, celebrate<br>survival</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460566" data-title="0078 Thanksgiving Day de Michael Shepherd" data-description="A celebration of the grace of the past, or a celebration of the grace of today? For thousands of years, the Native Americans whose origin is so mysterious held, as do all the peoples in the world, a celebration of the harvest now brought home,..."></div> </div> </div>

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