HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2012!
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.
~Alice W. Brotherton
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
Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.
~Jackie Windspear
Lord, ’tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv’st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
~Robert Herrick
O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
~William Shakespeare
All that we behold is full of blessings.
~William Wordsworth
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
~Cicero
Ah! on Thanksgiving day….
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~John Greenleaf Whittier
“It was a very fine November day … Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn–that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness–that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” ~ Jane Austen in Persuasion
Hope you have all recovered from the yummy food! Just another day for us but we should adopt this tradition methinks! Not sure about Black Friday though, think I would give that a pass!
And a very Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, too! 🙂