Thanksgiving

THE CENTURION CHRONICLE
Vol. III – Issue #35 – Nov 2008

LET’S GIVE A MODICUM OF THANKS
(we still have some gravy left)

Our uniquely American celebration of – Thanksgiving – is perhaps our favorite holiday.

Born from folklore, bordering on myth, about how the early Pilgrim colonists endured, struggled, and eventually, overcame the vicissitudes of their first couple of years on these shores, it celebrates the bounties of their first successful harvest, supplemented by gifts of game and fruits of the sea brought by their Native guests for the occasion. For all of which they gave thanks….hence….Thanksgiving…. a celebration with few, if any, comparable ones elsewhere in this world. It is completely….AMERICAN.

Today, it symbolizes the way we Americans have always overcome natural or man-made calamities during the several centuries of our existence as a nation. One which, regardless of the circumstances, manages to somehow rise us up again from any ashes of the moment.

The economic storms closing in on us today are certain to bring us as severe conditions as we’ve ever experienced before. The first impacts of these are already rippling through our society, and the odds are these ripples may soon take on the monstrous form of a rampaging economic tsunami across all our shorelines.

Well, even if this year’s Thanksgiving becomes somewhat meager, few of us will be in such a poor economic condition that there still won’t be some gravy left for us. And for that…..we should all give a modicum of…..thanks….if nothing else.

As for those who are simply are not able to shake off a doom and gloom outlook, perhaps this bit of cheeky tongue-in-cheek below will help. After all a good picture is worth….a thousand words!

CENTURION


I WENT TO THANKSGIVING DINNER
BUT ALL I GOT WAS……….

THE BIRD !

THE BIRD !