Happy Thanksgiving

I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone has a good one out there. There is a new tradition of shopping out there on the day after Thanksgiving and it is becoming more and more a Thanksgiving "thing."<br />n<br />nThanksgiving to me is a celebration of the harvest season. A celebration of another year of bringing the harvest in and I'm thankful for it. I'm thankful for my ability to do this every year and enjoy my life doing it. I'm also thankful for family and friends who populate my life and keep me young at heart and I'm thankful for the good Lord who watches over us all and loves us all equally.<br />n<br />nI hope everyone has things they are thankful for and remembers them on this day.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"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, tranquillity and Union." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VI, "Proclamation of Thanksgiving" (October 3, 1863), p. 497</blockquote>