Happy Thanksgiving Day

28 Nov 2014

      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!

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   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)

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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
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a community discovering what it cares about."  Margaret Wheatley

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Thanks, George.

Thanksgiving blessings to all!

Ellie Stock
elliestock@aol.com 

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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

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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

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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

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