Sending Warm Thanksgiving Wishes

[HappyHiker]

Here's a piece I wrote a few years back about today's holiday. It still holds true so I send it out to you Simple Live-ers!

Thanks Giving for Friends

Give me these cinnamon-scented days

with their fall of golden light

and ginger leaves drifting down.

Grant me these velvet starry nights

while I nest and pull high the comforter.


Oh these Thanksgiving days

give me pause to think of you

my spicy friends of all the seasons

we spiral dancers of moon and sun.


Pile on the gravy and the dressing

Pass me the sweet and the mashed.

Pies of pumpkin, apple and pecan

Oh my! Fill my plate full and high.


For you who nourish all my days

I whisper words of gratitude

And especially now, when I feel

so filled with home-cooked love.


--Patti Frank

copyright 2008

[Klunick]

Happy Thanksgiving greetings to everyone!!!

[Rogar]

Gobble ,Gobble.

I enjoyed this alternate woke version of the origin of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJE3KDxTbWI

[LDAHL]

I like gratitude. It’s one of the few virtues that feels good while I do it.

[KayLR]

Thank you for the poem, HH...very cheerful!

[rosarugosa]

Nice, Patti!

[rosarugosa]

Gobble ,Gobble.

I enjoyed this alternate woke version of the origin of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJE3KDxTbWI

Cute!

[happystuff]

Nice poem! Happy (belated) Thanksgiving, everyone. Went to one siblings for Thanksgiving and then next day had a two-day craft weekend at another's. Wonderful time!

[catherine]

Yes, thanks for the poem, Patti!

We are just wrapping up a really wonderful Thanksgiving with my NJ son/family. It was great. I'm feeling a little anticipatory grief about leaving them tomorrow. We only see them about 3 times a year. One interesting part was how much I enjoyed "his" house--for some reason I had a renewed appreciation for the space and layout--there are multiple places for a bunch of people to congregate--the living room, the family room, the kitchen, my son's "office"/bonus room. And there are three TVs. There is one spot DH was sitting where he could watch a movie in the family room while keeping an eye on the muted football game in the kitchen.

I joked with. my son that I want to buy the house back. Seriously, I'm so happy we sold it to him.

It was a wonderful three days.

[rosarugosa]

Yes, thanks for the poem, Patti!

We are just wrapping up a really wonderful Thanksgiving with my NJ son/family. It was great. I'm feeling a little anticipatory grief about leaving them tomorrow. We only see them about 3 times a year. One interesting part was how much I enjoyed "his" house--for some reason I had a renewed appreciation for the space and layout--there are multiple places for a bunch of people to congregate--the living room, the family room, the kitchen, my son's "office"/bonus room. And there are three TVs. There is one spot DH was sitting where he could watch a movie in the family room while keeping an eye on the muted football game in the kitchen.

I joked with. my son that I want to buy the house back. Seriously, I'm so happy we sold it to him.

It was a wonderful three days.

That's really nice, Catherine. It seems like the best of both worlds that you still can visit and enjoy your old home. Even when you aren't there, you know the home is being lived in and enjoyed by people you love.