This post includes:
- Guide to cooking and baking hotlines
- Links to great Thanksgiving sites for tips, food, decoration, kids' activities
- My own favorite Thanksgiving photos, recipes, music, wine, and even a blessing or two ...
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I can't preach about giving thanks. I'll just say I think it's healthy. It's lovely in that it's a discipline folks of any religion or country can take part. But of course, our fair "Rabbie" had it best:
Some Hae Meat
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
~Robert Burns
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. You could have guessed.
My worlds all come together on that day.
Giving thanks-- being grateful--is a practice or discipline of many religions and cultures, including mine.
I need it. I need that discipline. And:
Creating a meal to honor that...is my idea of a great day!
I wish you a day of totally beautiful, grateful life.
A grace could be very simply giving thanks for the hands that made the meal, for the workers in the stores, on the trucks, in the gardens and the vineyards. Even a toast to all who made it possible would work. Mark the moment.
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
~W.J. Cameron
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Awareness. Awakeness. Appreciation. Peaceful breath.
A table that includes something you love.
Someone you love.
Some of the best new scripture these days is found on paper napkins.
I have some that say, "It's not what's on the table that's important. It's who's in the chairs."
Ah, that we have to print that somewhere.
Deep breaths and a sense of warm wonder to you as you prepare to give thanks this year.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart
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