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Trowback Thursday: Gratitude

I’ve been very quiet, I know. I’ve been a bit busy. Not an excuse, merely a fact – if your daughter complains you’re never home, when you work from home…

Today’s Thanksgiving in the US, and while we don’t observe the day locally, one can never have enough reminders to be thankful, and this year I have much to be thankful for.

Does that pique your curiosity? Then watch this space. Meanwhile, here’s something from the archives.

Gratitude

We don’t have Thanksgiving in South Africa. Not even our own version like the Canadians do. And roasting an entire turkey is a bit unheard of – they don’t fit in most braai’s, and anyway would take way too much charcoal. We just go all in and roast and entire cow if the occasion calls for it. Wait. That’s not what I wanted to write about.…

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On Giving Thanks

We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in South Africa, it being an American holiday, but I think it’s a really neat idea.  I’m not speaking here of the commercialised holiday that is nothing more than an excuse to stuff yourself with too much food, fight with relatives and trample people in shopping malls (that is, of course, if American television portrays an accurate image of Thanksgiving).  No, I mean the idea of celebrating being thankful. Continue reading “On Giving Thanks”