Holiday

It’s time for that strange thing we do here in Canada every year around this time. Our American neighbours also do this, but not quite so early. Here in the Great White North we take pity on certain living things every October as the nights grow colder, such as the turkeys and the pumpkins, and even the apples, and we bring them indoors and warm them in our ovens. Then we eat them, and talk about the recipe books we have read and the things we have added to make them tastier than ever before. We also make arrangements of dead tree leaves and dead garden foliage, like corn husks and dried up flowers, as part of this celebration. And we place these on our tables and beside our front doors, and greatly admire them for some reason. When the holiday is over, we throw it all away, but in the meantime, we find that doing these things are wonderful, meaningful ways to celebrate all the things we are thankful for in our great country.

And now, I look forward to spending a great deal of time over the next few days wearing oven mitts and reading recipe books, and thus I will be unable to type things on the computer until next week.

So, to all my fellow Canadians who all have so much to be thankful for -

Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

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