Tag: Thanksgiving

  • Thanksgiving

    Being an even-numbered year, this Thanksgiving weekend was supposed to be a Logan family reunion, when we gather together and play games, make puzzles, and go on hikes. We share delicious food and our lives. We talk about what’s happened over the past two years and make predictions for the next couple.

    This year, we didn’t meet. And none of us had 2020 in our predictions.

    Instead, we stayed with our individual families, still thankful for those in our lives and the good that has happened.

    • My family. You’re the best!
    • My friends. As one said this morning, “You kept me sane this year.” Likewise.
    • Health. It’s been “interesting” but as brother Bob says, “Every day above ground is a good day.” My condolences to those who have lost someone dear.
    • Modern medicine. Had we lived at any time much earlier than now… ’nuff said. And that goes for more than just this year.
    • Pets. Ours are amateur therapy animals. I love a dog or cat flopped hard against me. And the grins that come from both ends of the leash make it easy to ignore the weather.
    • Social media. I’ve enjoyed looking at what my friends and family have posted today. It’s not the same as being there, or even being on the phone/Zoom, but it’s nice.
    • The internet and music. Without these, I don’t think surviving 2020 would have been possible.
    • Voters. I’m thankful for all 154,000,000 or so that participated in our great experiment. I’m hopeful for the coming years. Let’s work together.

    This is just a partial list, both in (1) who and what is included and (2) why.

    Have you considered why you could be thankful?

  • Logan Family Reunion, 2018

    Logan Family Reunion, 2018

    Another couple of years, another Logan family reunion. Our reunion has changed over the years as one generation takes the place of the prior one and the age distribution changes.1This year, another generation took over planning the next reunion. I’m looking forward to the changes and returning to some of the things that made prior reunions fun and meaningful.

    This reunion was not as well attended as some before. Some family members had other places they needed or wanted to be. We miss those who could not attend. And we were thankful that those near this year’s wildfires were able to join us.

    The rain kept us indoors and together. Puzzles, games,2Including Pokemon Go! Not only was the wifi much improved, but the Meadow Lodge is a Pokestop. and meals kept us talking. Willy continued his tradition of reviewing the prior reunion’s predictions and collecting new ones.3I was one for two. I wonder how my two new predictions will fare.

    On the final day, my immediate family packed up, took some pictures,4Of ourselves, and of the new deck. Looking forward to a year where it’s not so wet and we can spend some time outdoors on it. and left.

    We’re already looking forward to our next reunion.

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      This year, another generation took over planning the next reunion. I’m looking forward to the changes and returning to some of the things that made prior reunions fun and meaningful.
    • 2
      Including Pokemon Go! Not only was the wifi much improved, but the Meadow Lodge is a Pokestop.
    • 3
      I was one for two. I wonder how my two new predictions will fare.
    • 4
      Of ourselves, and of the new deck. Looking forward to a year where it’s not so wet and we can spend some time outdoors on it.
  • How to survive Thanksgiving

    How to survive Thanksgiving

    I’m studying these suggestions for surviving Thanksgiving from Sally Kohn so I can respond appropriately tomorrow. May you have a blessed, maybe apolitical, Thanksgiving!

    Update. It’s good to have a buddy system. Friends don’t let friends feel attacked. Have an exit strategy. Forgive everyone you possibly can.

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  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

    I am so thankful for all my family and friends. I am especially thankful for everyone who helped and supported me in my recent successful job search. There are so many people who helped with suggestions, reviewed my resume, taught me about searching and LinkedIn, asked me good questions, introduced me to people, and provided moral support.

    Thank you!

  • Thanksgiving, 2013

    Thanksgiving, 2013

    I’m thankful for the love of pets, friends, family, and God. May the latter three always be as obvious as the first.

  • As we gather in our communities and in our homes, …

    As we gather in our communities and in our homes, around the table or near the hearth, we give thanks to each other and to God for the many kindnesses and comforts that grace our lives. Let us pause to recount the simple gifts that sustain us, and resolve to pay them forward in the year to come.

    President Barack Obama

  • I Recommend: A Reunion Bibliography

    I Recommend: A Reunion Bibliography

    Every other Thanksgiving weekend, the Logan clan gets together to eat and talk, talk and eat. I’m not sure which we do more. It doesn’t really matter: we love both.

    We talk about everything, including religion and politics — even church politics. It can get interesting because we don’t agree on much everything. Hopefully, we do it without offending each other. (If I offended you this last weekend, please accept my apologies…)

    As part of our discussions, I recommended quite a few books, web sites, and videos. Rather than send individual e-mails to remind those I talked to, I’m writing this post, sharing it on Facebook, and tagging those involved.

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  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Abraham Lincoln

    The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

    No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

    It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

    In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

    Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

    Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, 3 October 1863. 
    
  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
    Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
    Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
    Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
    For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

    Psalm 100

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