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Thanksgiving

solus

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Thanksgiving

As this nation’s citizens enter the first tradition of the country’s holiday rituals, I ask you each to look back at your own family’s celebration(s) of Thanksgiving and pick one pleasnt highlight, from the many, which you felt meant the most or faciltated the long lasting memory in the first place and ask yourselves if that past memory is being re-enacted in your celebrations within your familial holiday celebrations today and should it be?

This is a rhetorical perspective as most of us have only have remembrance(s) of familal gatherings which the event was horrific with relatives bickering and such. But if there was one which was pleasant could or should you play it forward to make it a permanent part of this and future celebrations with family and friends.

while i indicated this was rhetorical, I had the occasion to reminisce this past week about one Thanksgiving celebration over 40 years ago, where there was just my bride and I in a Middle Eastern country, where I took the liberty to invite two in-country American acquaintances, my mentor in country and the principal of the American HS who did not know each other at all to join us. My bride was quite concerned of social graces and wondered if the was going to be the most boring event for all in attendance.

As we sat down my mentor started glaring at the principal and the principal started giving odd looks at my mentor, while my bride gave me the what is going on look! This continued over normal conversation of the political climate, etc., when all of a sudden my mentor blurted out, ‘you played center’, the principal nodded and said ‘right tackle’, where my mentor also nodded.

Seems 25 years earlier they played against each other at the RoseBowl. My bride and I were left out of the remaining dinner conversation as these two talked about the nuances of if this or that were done during the game the other team might of/could of maybe won!

since that event, our holiday rituals, if you will, changed and we always assured we invited kind folk we knew peripherally to share their company and our conversation over the holiday celebrations.

As you join family and friends this season and there is a pause in familial conversation, take a moment to share a favorite remembrance and then ask someone else to share their’s and watch the mood change around the group.

If you are staying home or traveling this holiday season please enjoy your family and those close [or not so close] friends invited into your familial celebrations.

Cheers
 
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solus

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John can you fix the title that somehow added WFThe when i initiated the thread...

thanks
 

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Happy Thanksgiving from Aix-en-Provence! Our guide here made a special point to show us this plaque next to their Hotel de Ville. 8028F43D-FE59-4C85-AD97-4E5D3B2BE6F5.jpeg
 
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