Throwback Thursday: Thanksgiving

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Tomorrow is Black Friday. I know this because it has been in the news for a week. Also, today's Duluth News Tribune feels fifteen pounds heavier than normal. I'm guessing that Black Friday is some form of fix for people addicted to bargains.

Today is Thanksgiving. As its name implies, or rather exclaims, it is a day set aside to give thanks. Or at least that is how it was originally designated, as a day to celebrate the harvest, the bounty and abundance of God's blessing.

Nowadays it's a secular holiday for the most part, signifying a short work week (unless you work in retail), a Lions football game and time to eat turkey.

Yesterday it snowed pretty heavy here, though not as fiercely as predicted, for which I am personally thankful. I still have to blow the driveway though... but that's the price we pay for living here in Minnesota.

Thought for the day, from John F. Kennedy: "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

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The above notes were written on a Thanksgiving eight years ago. Yesterday we only had a dusting of snow, not a dump. Also, when written in 2010 the holiday did not fall on the anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, as it does today. One wonders how events like the Viet Nam War and Civil Rights movement would have played out had Kennedy lived. Because of what happened 55 years ago today we will never know.

Enjoy the day. And don't get too stuffed.