The Story of the First Thanksgiving, as Told by the Residents of the Land of BrightandShinyThings

The year 1620 the Pilgrims came over



The good ship Mayflower brought them 'cross the sea.

They landed at Plymouth Rock,



Then built up their houses.

At harvest time they started our Thanksgiving Day.

Okay.  I admit it's not the whole story, and the illustrations are whimsical, but I learned the song in first grade and it's been stuck in my head ever since.

Thanksgiving BrightandShinyThings here.

There are Three Things I Have Learned Never to Discuss with People:

religion

politics

and the Great Pumpkin.

~ Linus Van Pelt

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Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving Day

Gracie is thankful for a soft bed to sleep on (with no other cats on it).

 Wee Pierre is thankful for plastic and plant material to gnaw.

 Uncle Buck is thankful for chin scritches.

Esmeralda is thankful for her kitty friends.

 George is thankful for his fluffy alligator.

Rhino is thankful for her safe view of the great outdoors.

Dracula is thankful for his morning exploring missions.

 Rhino is thankful for her beloved scanner.

Esmeralda is thankful for Duckie (and Moosie and Giraffe-ie).

 Gracie is thankful for her private exit (and mousies).

 George is thankful for a place to rest his weary head.

 Uncle Buck is thankful for her human.

 Schmedley is thankful for cat food.

 Wendall is thankful for peanuts.

 Dracula is thankful for a chance to lift his voice in song.

 Wee Pierre is thankful for head scritches.

 Esmeralda is thankful for play time.

 

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving
from all the creatures here
in the Land of BrightandShinyThings. 
We are thankful for all of you.

Thanksgiving Thoughts, Part III

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity:
it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

~William Faulkner

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

~Estonian Proverb

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got,
he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

~Frank A. Clark

Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit

We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~Thornton Wilder

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Thanksgiving Thoughts, Part II

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.  

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness,
universal to all ages and all faiths.  At whatever straws we must grasp,
there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. 
~J. Robert Moskin

Let us remember that, as much has been given us,
much will be expected from us, and that true homage
comes from the heart as well as from the lips,
and shows itself in deeds. 
~Theodore Roosevelt

  

We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  

~Thornton Wilder

  

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. 
~William Jennings Bryan

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. 
They are consumed in twelve minutes.  Half-times take twelve minutes. 
This is not coincidence. 
~Erma Bombeck

 

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The Turkey as Our National Bird

Long ago, or so I've heard,
The famed Ben Franklin quite bestirred



The people re: a national bird.
And while the turkey seems absurd,



A turkey, if he were captured,
And thinking of his poor gizzard



Would hope a hunter'd be deterred
And keep him as a bird pampered.




The turkey said, and I concurred,
Check this piece and its turkey herd.