May they live the rest of their lives in blissful gobbling, and may all Americans enjoy a holiday full of love and peace. God bless you all," Bush said.
Well Thanksgiving is just around the corner and begins the "Holiday Season " which lasts until New Year's Day. (unless you count the super bowl which comes more than a month later but as far as almost every man in the US that can draw breath,is concerned is their High Holy Day. this is another story for after New Year's)
So in my tradition of explaining our American holidays I will cut this holiday down to size out of my sheer amazement at the ignorance that supports the icons, customs and misguided beliefs for this holiday. (just wait for my rant about the destruction of Christmas!)
No one ever really cares about what the actual holiday is marking and why we are celebrating it.
Thanksgiving's number one feature is the meal.
The turkey, the traditional pies, relatives coming over that you feel you would rather have bamboo picks shoved under your finger nails than see,people freezing outside overcrowded and up from 3am for the Macy's parade with giant balloons (still don't get that one) and marching bands ,that no one wants to listen to ,not even the TV stations, the football games, Mom and all the other women in the family cooking since dawn to feed a bunch of usually ungrateful people that stuff themselves, drink too much and pass out in the living room while Mom and all the other women slave away doing the dishes, cleaning up and getting ready for round 2, desert.
In 1621, after a hard and devastating first year in the New World the Pilgrim's fall harvest was very successful and plentiful. There was corn, fruits, vegetables, along with fish which was packed in salt, and meat that was smoke cured over fires. They found they had enough food to put away for the winter.
The Pilgrims had beaten the odds. They built homes in the wilderness, they raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, and they were at peace with their Indian neighbors. Their Governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving that was to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native American Indians.
The custom of an annually celebrated thanksgiving, held after the harvest, continued through the years. During the American Revolution (late 1770's) a day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress.
Well Thanksgiving is just around the corner and begins the "Holiday Season " which lasts until New Year's Day. (unless you count the super bowl which comes more than a month later but as far as almost every man in the US that can draw breath,is concerned is their High Holy Day. this is another story for after New Year's)
So in my tradition of explaining our American holidays I will cut this holiday down to size out of my sheer amazement at the ignorance that supports the icons, customs and misguided beliefs for this holiday. (just wait for my rant about the destruction of Christmas!)
No one ever really cares about what the actual holiday is marking and why we are celebrating it.
Thanksgiving's number one feature is the meal.
The turkey, the traditional pies, relatives coming over that you feel you would rather have bamboo picks shoved under your finger nails than see,people freezing outside overcrowded and up from 3am for the Macy's parade with giant balloons (still don't get that one) and marching bands ,that no one wants to listen to ,not even the TV stations, the football games, Mom and all the other women in the family cooking since dawn to feed a bunch of usually ungrateful people that stuff themselves, drink too much and pass out in the living room while Mom and all the other women slave away doing the dishes, cleaning up and getting ready for round 2, desert.
In 1621, after a hard and devastating first year in the New World the Pilgrim's fall harvest was very successful and plentiful. There was corn, fruits, vegetables, along with fish which was packed in salt, and meat that was smoke cured over fires. They found they had enough food to put away for the winter.
The Pilgrims had beaten the odds. They built homes in the wilderness, they raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, and they were at peace with their Indian neighbors. Their Governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving that was to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native American Indians.
The custom of an annually celebrated thanksgiving, held after the harvest, continued through the years. During the American Revolution (late 1770's) a day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress.
THEY BEAT THE ODDS BECAUSE.......
1621 Thanksgiving, The Pilgrims in Massachusetts
The early settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts were particularly grateful to Squanto, the Native American and former British slave who taught them how to both catch eel and grow corn and also served as their native interpreter. Without Squanto's assistance, the settlers might not have survived in the New World.
This one Thursday in November is supposed to signify the kindness of the Pilgrims (a bunch of puritanical idiots that were beyond racist )to the Indians providing the harvest feast thanking them for feeding and teaching them how to survive in the "New World" But the supreme kindness and generosity of the Native Americans was not appreciated to long after. This gesture they forgot about 5 minutes after their stomachs were full and then proceeded to take everything away from these good people . The true example of "no good deed goes unpunished!"
They proceeded for the next 100 years to take their land, food, faith and their very lives.Using the most despicable weapons to prey upon their innocence. Subduing and corrupting them with vices they never would have known.
The early settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts were particularly grateful to Squanto, the Native American and former British slave who taught them how to both catch eel and grow corn and also served as their native interpreter. Without Squanto's assistance, the settlers might not have survived in the New World.
This one Thursday in November is supposed to signify the kindness of the Pilgrims (a bunch of puritanical idiots that were beyond racist )to the Indians providing the harvest feast thanking them for feeding and teaching them how to survive in the "New World" But the supreme kindness and generosity of the Native Americans was not appreciated to long after. This gesture they forgot about 5 minutes after their stomachs were full and then proceeded to take everything away from these good people . The true example of "no good deed goes unpunished!"
They proceeded for the next 100 years to take their land, food, faith and their very lives.Using the most despicable weapons to prey upon their innocence. Subduing and corrupting them with vices they never would have known.
Whatever the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving, misguided or otherwise, the bottom line is to take one day to be Thankful you have a family,a friend or even a total stranger that shows they care .
Make it a real Thanksgiving. Give Mom a break, and sit her on the couch after dinner, put her feet up, put on Lifetime and go do the dishes and cleaning yourself!
Try to put petty bitterness and stupid grudges away and enjoy your family on that day. If everyone treated each other for who they are at that moment without preemptive malice for past actions, enjoyed a wonderful meal and ,God Forbid,relaxed ,smiled and were truly thankful for just being alive, it really would be Thanksgiving!
Meow for now,
Catraven =^..^=
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