Re: [gardeners] Thanksgiving thoughts.
drusus@golden.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:40:25 -0400
At 10:15 PM 10-10-98 -0700, you wrote:
>Gayle Fields wrote:
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>> Good morning to you all. This is the Thanksgiving Weekend for
>> Canadians and I have planned a wonderful feast for my family.
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>Gayle,
>I have to admit my ignorance here and ask... what event does the Canadian
>Thanksgiving commemorate?
Bountiful Harvest.
Lucinda
I've been wanting to switch Thanksgivings (I
>know, this sounds crazy) for a while & maybe I could celebrate yours <g>.
>I love the idea of giving thanks for what we have, but I hate the idea of
>doing it as a celebration for our invading America, stealing Native
>American land & killing off & evicting the people. I know, technically
>it was that they made it through the first year, but I have NA friends &
>a co-worker whose eyes I now see our Thanksgiving through and I don't
>feel very proud of my country's past. It must be hard for people whose
>countries have been taken over to have to live through "celebrations" of
>their losses... So anyway, if Canada celebrates Thanksgiving for some
>other thing maybe I'd adopt that.
>Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadians.
>--That bleeding heart in zone 4 boonies :)
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