Garth Brooks nixes appearance on Thursday's TV show due toFerguson. The racial undertone isuniversal as Ferguson after the Grand Jury gets ladled a second layer ofnotoriety around the world is the living example of the unbearable pretensionsto supremacy of the light skin colored-ness of being! The shade of one's skin was not only true to my experience in Kentucky, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia, but it also determine culturalvalues in the Asian Far East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa of ourfamiliar. The militarization of thelocal police has got corporate producers of armaments smiling to the bank. Rod Rippel and Jon Elizondo reminds us that the lesson ofhistory does not easily fit the niceties of our sugar-laced T-Days (ours in China isnot the last Thursday of November) even as George Holcombe and Lynda affirms the mainstream story, and Randy and Steve raise their questions. This speaks of the level-headedness of thisgroup, and the affirmation of Ellie Stock, amen'dby Elsa Batica, to embrace all of it as we live our lives today. That, tome, is finally the meaning of this day, the decision to embrace it all! As the words of what I lifted off the walls of my dwelling'smain office says: "Life is not a race but a journey. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present." BHO did manage to give an executive order to release two captive turkeys. OK, Boehner, let me see you defund that one! Guys, clean up after the games! -----Original Message----- From: via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: oe <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Fri, Nov 28, 2014 1:51 am Subject: OE Digest, Vol 32, Issue 25 Send OE mailing list submissions to oe@lists.wedgeblade.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oe-request@lists.wedgeblade.net You can reach the person managing the list at oe-owner@lists.wedgeblade.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OE digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Happy Thanksgiving (George Holcombe via OE) 2. Re: Happy Thanksgiving (Ellie Stock via OE) 3. Re: Happy Thanksgiving (Lynda Cock via OE) 4. (no subject) (steve har via OE) 5. An alternate view (Rod Rippel via OE) 6. Thanksgiving reflection (Ellie Stock via OE) 7. Re: An alternate view (Randy Williams via OE) 8. Re: Happy Thanksgiving (jonzondo@juno.com via OE) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:58:20 -0600 From: George Holcombe via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: ICA/OE List Serves <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>, ICA/OE List Serves <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: [Oe List ...] Happy Thanksgiving Message-ID: <DB6E2DF3-17C8-4676-9BDF-E7C9F7EFA793@me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Happy Thanksgiving. Here?s a little history about the day. "The First Thanksgiving The first thanksgiving feast was celebrated in 1621 by the pilgrims of the Plymouth colony along with about ninety Indians. The Pilgrims had suffered through a devastating winter in which nearly half their number died. Without the help of the Indians, all would have perished. After the first harvest, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer to God. The food, which was eaten outdoors, included corn, geese, turkeys, ducks, clams, plums, cod, bass, barley, venison and corn bread. The feast lasted 3 days, races and other games were played during the celebration. Though the exact date is unknown, the feast clearly took place in late autumn. In 1623, a period of drought was answered by colonists with a proclamation of prayer and fasting. This prayer and fasting was changed to another thanksgiving celebration when rains came during the prayers. Later that year, Governor Bradford proclaimed November 29 as a time for pilgrims to gather and give thanks. ?Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, squashes and garden vegetables, and made the forest to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from the pestilence and granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. Now I, your magistrate do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of nine and twelve in the daytime on Thursday, November ye 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Plymouth Rock, there to listen to ye Pastor and render Thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all his blessings.? ? Governor Bradford November 29, 1623 Throughout American history, there were many thanksgiving proclamations and celebrations. In 1789 George Washington proclaimed a National Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday in November, in honor of the new United States Constitution. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, later discontinued it, calling it ?a kingly practice.? But in 1863, Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of the poem ?Mary Had a Little Lamb,? convinced Abraham Lincoln to proclaim Thanksgiving a national holiday. For the date she chose the last Thursday in November because of Washington?s proclamation. In 1941, it was officially changed to the fourth Thursday in November.? And the Mayflower Compact - we used to read at Thanksgiving. THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT "In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&.Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleve nth of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620." There followed the signatures of 41 of the 102 passengers, 37 of whom were members of the "Separatists" who were fleeing religious persecution in Europe. This compact established the first basis in the new world for written laws. Half the colony failed to survive the first winter, but the remainder lived on and prospered. 1 Mr. John Carver <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carver> 2 William Bradford <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_(Plymouth_governor)> 3 Mr. Edward Winslow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Winslow_(Mayflower_passenger)> 4 Mr. William Brewster <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brewster_(Mayflower_passenger)> 5 Mr. Isaac Allerton <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Allerton> 6 Capt. Myles Standish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Standish> 7 John Alden <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alden> 8 Mr. Samuel Fuller <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Fuller_(Mayflower_physician)> 9 Mr. Christopher Martin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Martin_(Mayflower_passenger)> 10 Mr. William Mullins <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mullins> 11 Mr. William White <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_White_(Mayflower_passenger)> 12 Mr. Richard Warren <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren> 13 John Howland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howland> 14 Mr. Stephen Hopkins <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(Mayflower_passenger)> 15 Edward Tilley <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tilley> 16 John Tilley <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tilley_(Mayflower_passenger)> 17 Francis Cooke <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cooke> 18 Thomas Rogers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rogers_(Mayflower_passenger)> 19 Thomas Tinker <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tinker> 20 John Rigsdale 21 Edward Fuller <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fuller_(Mayflower)> 22 John Turner 23 Francis Eaton <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Eaton_(Mayflower_passenger)> 24 James Chilton <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chilton> 25 John Crackstone <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crackstone> 26 John Billington <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Billington> 27 Moses Fletcher <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fletcher> 28 John Goodman 29 Degory Priest <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degory_Priest> 30 Thomas Williams <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Williams_(Mayflower)> 31 Gilbert Winslow 32 Edmund Margeson 33 Peter Browne <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Browne_(Mayflower_passenger)> 34 Richard Britteridge 35 George Soule <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soule_(Mayflower_passenger)> 36 Richard Clarke 37 Richard Gardiner 38 John Allerton <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allerton> 39 Thomas English 40 Edward Doty <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Doty> 41 Edward Leister George Holcombe 14900 Yellowleaf Tr. Austin, TX 78728 Mobile 512/252-2756 geowanda1@me.com "Whatever the problem, community is the answer. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley Message: 2 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:06:51 -0500 From: Ellie Stock via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: grholcombe@gmail.com, oe@lists.wedgeblade.net, dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Happy Thanksgiving Message-ID: <8D1D86283FBAA86-9EC-2226E@webmail-va078.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thanks, George. Thanksgiving blessings to all! Ellie Stock elliestock@aol.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:41:18 -0500 From: Lynda Cock via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: George & Wanda Holcombe <grholcombe@gmail.com>, ICA/OE List Serves <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>, ICA/OE List Serves <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Happy Thanksgiving Message-ID: <D09CA140.2E551%llc860@triad.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thank you, George for sharing this good proclamation of our Order history as we celebrate. I found a great children?s book called Thank You, Sarah: A Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, (Sarah Hale, that you mention). Very colorful and animated illustrations. Good story of how change happens one person at a time and the power of the pen! Look for it next Thanksgiving for the grandchildren. Lynda Message: 4 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:42:05 -0600 From: steve har via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: "oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: [Oe List ...] (no subject) Message-ID: <CADiNvGQRqpZUY20=r5x4zQvDzARZ8ghEm_d2HfM7+gOgV5Yfjg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thanks for the reminder of 2 historical community practices begun in Plymouth and in Austin. Wondering what a TDay prayer might sound like in the 21st Century? Considering this prayer I just got from my Zen Buddhist teacher Dosho Port, who teaches explicitly from the Soto zen tradition with wisdom from a Catholic church up-bringing on the Iron Range near Hibbing. I didn't know you could pray in the Buddhist tradition since there is no intercessory images available like an angelic Madonna or a psychological Jesus. Jon and Maureen Jenkins translated the historical religious language -if I have it right doing = accomplishing an outcome prayer = intention (the action before the action) obedience = field of engaged action and I guess chastity is about being in in a game of engaging your own freedom - a particular way of standing and moving forward - of being present, focused, full of wonder for how it all turns out in the end. Do you pray, these days -wondering hat words, language, tradition do you pray express loving kindness for yourself and gratitude for others? Steve A Thanksgiving Prayer November 26, 2014 by Dosho Port May we all attain the way by giving the way to the way. May we give to each other as if we were giving away unneeded belongings to someone we don?t know, or offering flowers blooming on a distant mountain to thusness, or offering treasures we had in former lives. May we give ourselves to ourselves and others to others. Indeed, giving to ourselves is giving. Giving to our families is also giving. May we give even a phrase or verse of the truth; our valuables, even a penny or a blade of grass. May we know that to launch a boat or build a bridge is an act of giving ? making a living and producing things is fully giving just as leaving flowers to the wind, leaving birds to the seasons, are also acts of giving. May we study giving closely, seeing that to accept a body and to give up the body are both giving. May we make an effort to give and be mindful of every opportunity to give. May we know that even when we give a particle of dust, we should rejoice in our own act as a gift of awakening to self and others. Indeed, the hearts of living beings are difficult to change. May we keep on changing the hearts of living beings, beginning by offering something of value and on to the moment that they attain the way. Heart is beyond measure. Things given are beyond measure. And yet, in giving, heart transforms the gift and the gift transforms heart. (inspired by Dogen?s section on giving from ?The Bodhisattva?s Four Methods of Guidance?) -- Steve Harrington ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:46:59 -0800 From: Rod Rippel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: [Oe List ...] An alternate view Message-ID: <49F35063F09D4FFBBE6299E3F3C6E89C@RodHP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Native Americans have a different take on the 1st Thanksgiving. RR Learn the Real History of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, like Columbus Day, serves as a reminder of the genocide and violence Native communities experienced. Learn about Thanksgiving and early colonial history from the Native perspective. A Wampanoag's perspective on the first Thanksgiving Cracked.com's 5 Facts About Thanksgiving Your History Teacher Left Out Christopher Moraff's 2012 piece, "Should We Rename Thanksgiving 'National Ethnic Cleansing Day'?" in Philadelphia magazine. Do American Indians celebrate Thanksgiving? By NMAI Powwow.com Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month Guide ? Watch Captured 1614