For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope your your harvest has been bountiful.
Obviously , being in the southern hemisphere, it is spring here and, in the current dry conditions (in our perspective, a spring is not a source of water), it is too early to decide if we have anything to be giving thanks for. Agriculturally speaking. Nor, as a largely non-religious country, do we really have anyone to be giving thanks to.
Which is good news for the turkeys, at least.
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Give thanks to Bacchus and eat the turkey anyway.
ReplyDeletehmm, interesting perspective.
ReplyDeleteBe thankful for all your blogging peeps!
ReplyDeletei always dream to have a family gathering, lunch with turkey as one of our meal. Its so expensive here..oohh why i feel hungry..
ReplyDeleteFunny, we in Malaysia (the ones who celebrates Christmas at least) feast on turkeys on Christmas. No idea if anybody celebrate Thanksgiving..
ReplyDeleteLove the colourful new header.
ReplyDeleteAnd the turkey survives to live another day, well at least until Christmas.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your wine Lee. ♥
Well mum eats Turkey all year round so I guess that's a bummer for the Turkeys 'round here. Lucky you enjoying spring, it was minus three here this morning. It must be strange for you guys to have everything the wrong way round;)
ReplyDeletehurray for the turkey...
ReplyDeletenow...it's the turkey's turn to celebrate thanksgiving....
Your comment about being a largely non-religious country made me wonder. Maybe I am really Australian! Certainly I'm tired of the bible-beaters who control so much of this country but I'd be just as tired of them if they were Islamic or Jewish or.....
ReplyDeleteMy brother's in Sydney, and goes to church, works at the Mission to Seafarers, is quite devout. I've got a lot of respect for his personal faith, but was quite shocked by the intolerant shade of belief shown by his church superiors and others there. Because they partially fund the Mission, (which has been an eye-opener to him politically in terms of working with some of the poorest most oppressed working people in the world, and just trying to help a bit), they are continually on at him that he should be using this opportunity to evangelise them, and putting all kinds of conditions on their funding. He took us to visit the a large Buddhist temple ner where he lives, but said that if his bishop even knew he was there he might quite possibly lose his job, as there's no question of peacable understanding between faiths, apparently, there is only the one way.
ReplyDeleteTo someone from a rather wishy-washy religion-as-part-of-the-cultural-furniture English background, living in a traditionally Catholic but keep-it-out-of-national-life-or-else French one, this took me aback somewhat.
I don't think a sense of thankfulness particularly has to have an object, divine or otherwise. The world's a crap place going to hell in a handcart, but I'm still thankful for quite a lot of things, not least as a woman particularly, I live in the time and place I do. But you can't be told to be grateful, if you don't feel it, it's true.
And quite likely hacking one's way through one turkey at the end of November then another a month later would be a bit too much.
Sorry Lee, seem to have ranted on a bit there... your perspective was nevertheless refreshing.
when we had our small farmholding, raising and butchering our own meat, we learned to be thankful in a whole new way
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