To quote Wikipedia, Thanksgiving is:
celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season, is an annual American Federal holiday to express thanks for one’s material and spiritual possessions. The period from Thanksgiving Day to New Year’s Day often is called the holiday season. Most people celebrate by gathering at home with family or friends for a holiday feast. Though the holiday’s origins can be traced to harvest festivals that have been celebrated in many cultures since ancient times, the American holiday has religious undertones related to the deliverance of the English settlers by Native Americans after the brutal winter at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
I was fortunate enough to have spent one Thanksgiving holiday with my good friends, Leisa and Randy, at their Arizona home, way back when I was in college. Yes, we had turkey with all the trimmings, etc. It’s similar to the Chinese New Year reunion, although I suppose Thanksgiving, as its name implies, is a time to give thanks for what we have. This year, Thanksgiving falls on November 27th, so I’d like to wish all my American readers a very Happy Thanksgiving, and God bless.
Curiously enough, the Friday after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday. It heralds the start of the Christmas shopping season. Want to learn the piano on your own, as your personal present to yourself? You know where to find me.
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I’d email you some turkey, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie – but when I zip them up into a gobble file (extension .gbl) I think you’ll have a hard time finding a program to open it, and an even harder time decoding the mess it makes. Gravy, cranberry sauce and pie really muck things up when you email them you know!
Doris, as far as I know, no zip program can unzip the .gbl extension with 100% success. More often than not, I’ve heard horror stories of the contents spilling and gushing out from users’ monitors…not a pretty sight. And the smell…ugh!
But thanks for the kind thoughts, anyway.