Oh, my. Have dessert first and don't limit yourself to just one kind of pie. My kind of table!

Forgive me it this seems inappropriate, but on this Thanksgiving Day I am compelled to share this poem from a local friend.

These Days

These days I keep a candle burning
through the dark hours
at the far end of the year.

A single flame burns
for mercy and compassion,
for truth and forgiveness;

for our endangered Constitution
and the land I love,
and for all the lands loved everywhere;

for our youth in prison,
in uniforms or gangs,
doing what they must to survive;

for all those left homeless
by earthquake, flood or war,
by indifference or greed;

for tiger salamanders
and polar bears
and ancient redwood trees;

for tender-tipped
green growing
in asphalt cracks beneath the cars;

for renewal and quickening
promised by apple bud and daphne,
by Persehone and Jesus.

Some days, the only thing I can do
is to keep a single candle burning
at the far end of an age.

- Larry Robinson
12/21/05

Warm wishes to you, dear Ronni and to this blog's readers, for a good holiday — good company (starring Ollie the cat and Crabby Old Lady), good food (err... desserts), and good all else.

Isn't this a really neat 24 hours devoted to focusing on what we have versus what we don't have? Of giving thanks, not getting stuff?

Ronni, I hope that you had a great Thanksgiving, and if that table is any indication, I'd say you had a lovely one!

I posted a video on my blog about Thanksgiving - it was filmed in 1939 - it's a Youtube video. I am curious as to other's opinions on this - the family went without turkey - wonder why - was it that expensive back then?
It's here: http://cathyknits.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11/thanksgiving-vi.html

It's a bit nostalgic - wonder the thoughts of others on this video.

Oh, I like that poem. I think I shall light a candle in a window as a way of beginning my holiday season.

I’m reaching a little far back here (I saw this Thanksgiving table and I couldn’t resist) but wanted to say hi & wish everyone a happy, healthy & safe Thanksgiving 2020. As much as I miss Ronni’s voice, her ‘Interesting Stuff’ and Peter Tibble’s music lessons (well, they were lessons for my illiterate ears!) I miss the contributions from her regular readers too. People like Annie Gottlieb, Cop Car, dkzody, Salinda Dahl... Bruce Cooper, I don’t know if you’ll ever see this but I think of you pretty much daily. I pray you’re well. Take care everybody :^)