Happy Thanksgiving!
This year has been rough in many ways, and the future is uncertain. But there are still many things for us all to be thankful for despite all that. I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and feast – large or small – filled with friends and/or family of your choice.
Happy Thanksgiving Neo and everyone. It’s my second favorite holiday of the year and my wife’s family has decided not to let the Grannyslayer ruin it for us all.
No holiday, here in Germany, but I hope all of you are having a great day and enjoying your turkey.
To you too, Neo….an island of sanity in an insane world…thank you for all you do.
Happy Thanksgiving neo!
I’m thankful for Neo, for Neo’s commenters, that I don’t have Rona, that my bride of 64 years is still cooking, and the turkey will soon be done. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
A Happy Thanksgiving to you, Neo; and to all the commenters here.
My favorite holiday. God bless. This is the first Thanksgiving I haven’t had my sisters and brothers in the back pew to celebrate. Well, I’ll lift a glass and give you cheers from the city of brotherly love.
From where I sit I can smell turkey roasting (sense of smell means I don’t have ‘rona, for which I’m VERY thankful) and see the ski slope operator making snow on the Sierras just three miles distant. I’m thankful they are confident enough, the day after our governor shut the state down for three weeks, to be investing in times when shutdowns will no longer keep them from operating.
VERY thankful for Neo and her commenters, to which I look forward every day.
VERY thankful Hillary did not win four years ago. Worse than ‘rona!
Especially thankful for family, who are 3,000 miles distant right now but who we hope will all be together next Thanksgiving after we move across the country this summer.
“…an island of sanity in an insane world…”
Absolutely, for which many, many thanks.
(Though today I was thinking more along the lines of “a dollop of cranberry sauce on a slice of white turkey breast”.)
Happy TG to you all…
A great thing about a small TG gathering is that instead of a long list of dishes you can focus on having just your absolute favorites!
Neo, Your blog is mostly loving, mostly non-judgemental, mostly intellectual and mostly enlightening ….perfect!
Thanks for all your work putting this on! We appreciate you!
Happy Thanksgiving to our wise and gracious hostess and to all who read and write here as well.
Happy Thanksgiving to Neo and her loyal clan of followers.
I am always conscious that at the core, I have so much to be thankful for; and I must not let anything overshadow that.
Happy Thanksgiving, Neo, and everyone else. God bless you all.
What om said.
One of my favorite Thanksgiving hymns is “Now Thank We All Our God” (Nun danket alle Gott in the original German)– which has a special resonance for me in this year of the pandemic. The hymn was written around 1636 by Martin Rinkart, a pastor in Eilenburg, Saxony, which was overrun by marauding armies three times during the Thirty Years’ War and finally struck by plague in 1637. Rinkart performed more than 4000 funerals for his parishioners that year, including that of his wife. His hymn was circulated across Germany in spite of ongoing warfare and disease, and was widely sung by the time the Peace of Westphalia was signed in 1648.
Some of Neo’s readers will recall the first stanza (in Catherine Winkworth’s 19th-century translation):
Now thank we all our God,
with heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done,
in Whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mothers’ arms
has blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.
Sigfrid Karg-Elert, an early 20th-century German composer, wrote a chorale prelude for organ on “Nun danket alle Gott” that is still often performed on festive occasions. Here is the best recording of it that I’ve encountered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXb8o6zWlE&ab_channel=SchwesterMihovilaTen%C5%BEera
Something to enjoy this Thanksgiving and always.
My parents always had us sing before the Thanksgiving dinner. We sang:
We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing.
He hastens and chastens his will to make known.
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation.
Sing praises to His name. He forgets not His own.
This was followed by the Doxology. I loved those times when our family sang together at all the holidays and loudly at church on Sundays.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who gather at Neo’s on this day and other days.
The aroma of the roasting turkey is making its way through the house, although this year its just the bride and I, and a small dog. The last of the horses went down last week…
Unlike F, I can’t see the ski operator making snow, I am too far down the hill. The air is chill as the sun sets here on the left. I am thankful for our health, a warm hearth and sound roof. And for Neo and her commentariat here I wish a Happy Thanksgiving.
Like F, come spring I, too, will be moving east to more pleasant surroundings.
Happy Thanksgiving Neo, and all who visit.
I am thankful today for a SCOTUS that put Emmy Award Murderer Cuomo in his place.
Happy Thanksgiving Neo! and the same to all who read/comment here.
Happy Thanksgiving all
This has been a tough year. And this time of year can be particularly difficult.
Yesterday an ex-coworker of mine decided that it had all been too much. In the middle of his shift and with no warning he decided he just could not handle life anymore. So I would like to point out that there is help available. If you or anyone is in need please call a co-worker or a friend. If you feel you have no one you can also call please phone
The National Suicide hotline- 1-800-273-8255
Happy Thanksgiving y’all!
And may yours be truly a day filled with rich blessings & genuine thanks!
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Hebrews 13:15-16
“…a tough year…”
In so many ways. Very sorry to hear about your friend.
At times I’ve felt that we’re all of us very much survivors, some more than others certainly. Much more.
Politically, one may well wonder if there is any light at the end of this current tunnel. (And by “politically” I’m also including the COVID-19 issue, which has become uber-politicized, which itself leads directly into the issue of economy and—ultimately—whether political control of the population will be achieved by the Left). I don’t know, but recent event have certainly been clarifying.
And so, few tweets from the ever pertinent Lee Smith:
https://twitter.com/leesmithdc
“My sense is that many of our neighbors, fellow Americans, feel blessed to be living in this meaningful time.”
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1332212098554793984
“Very interesting thread about the establishment’s demolition of US institutions and subsequent desecration of public life….”
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1332206994627960832
“Gonna have to break the system bigger than that…” (referring to info-media; J.E. Dyer R/T)
https://twitter.com/OptimisticCon/status/1332200482610155521
“….But actually it was always a tsunami in favor of Trump. The evil media, big tech, and Left conspired to make the American people believe otherwise to cover their massive fraud.” (Sidney Powell R/T)
https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1332017613212426252
And…Twitter has deplatformed the site of the movie “Plot Against the President” (Tom Fitton R/T) –actually, I was wondering what was taking Dorsey so long…further evidence that they are getting more and more desperate…and with good reason.
https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1332076711081611269
+ bonus:
“America’s greatest ally” (Bronze Age Pervert R/T)
https://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1332116796057513987
I was so lucky to spend Thanksgiving with my best friend’s family, including a multitude of his friends and family. All of us Trumpsters, so talk and laughter were easy. Eighteen people sharing a groaning table of turkey and trimmings, topped off with nine pies. Very much like the Thanksgivings of my past. Celebrating our cultural heritage in the way we remember has become an act of defiance against the elitist regime.
Happy TG – and already Black Friday.
With only 5 of us yesterday, we enjoyed our Slovak traditional duck, this time also with an extra goose breast. My eldest son and wife come for our bigger family feast tomorrow – 2 ducks.
Plus the pumpkin pie from scratch that starts with our butter pumpkin being cooked (even as I type it’s in the oven), before it’s pureed and drained and then mixed with spices to be cooked with pie crust tomorrow.
So many material benefits to be grateful for – thanks to our Christian Capitalist system of huge abundance. Conservatives should agree that health care, and elderly care, and good jobs, and housing, all these things that somebody has to pay for – these are BENEFITS, not “rights”. How to have more people in America, and the world, able to enjoy these benefits – that’s the question of politics.
Truly hope you all had great Thanksgiving times, and it carries thru the weekend. And even longer.
At Thanksgiving dinner last night we were doing the gratitude thing and talking about the world as we hope for it, so I mentioned the Antwerp Subway Station “Sound of Music” video (2009), in which at 8 AM 200 dancers seemingly spontaneously appear in the subway station and dance to “Do, a deer, a female deer…” while onlookers are lifted from the commuter trance to smiles of delight and even dancing themselves.
–“The Antwerp Station Sound of Music”
https://www.exploringlifesmysteries.com/antwerp-station-sound-of-music/
Ten years ago this video went viral, but no one at dinner last night knew it. I watch it now and then for the tiny burst of joy it offers and for which I am grateful, among many other things.
My husband’s and my Thanksgiving dinner was cozy rather than festive, but then we prefer each other’s company and have to be sort of shook into sociability most of the time. My niece is arriving today with 3 dogs to shake us up at least a bit. Turkey leftovers are just about my favorite part of the annual tradition. There’s an orderly progression from turkey sandwiches to tetrazzini to turkey soup and dumplings, my main challenge now being our inadequate fridge & freezer arrangements. Happy Holidays to all.
I’m very thankful for you Neo. It is such a good thing to be able to read your thoughtful, commonsense analysis of the events. Good work! The commenters are also great. May the Lord bless and keep you!