In the U.S., Thanksgiving Day is upon us! (Note to U.K. readers: As you may know, Thanksgiving is one of the major U.S. holidays. President Abraham Lincoln created the holiday 1863 by declaring a national day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Americans generally recognize, however, that the first Thanksgiving was held after the Pilgrims harvested their bountiful crop in the New World in 1621. Native Americans and Pilgrims feasted together, and all was good—though that didn’t last long, did it?)
I do think an annual day for counting one’s blessings is a good thing, even if we quibble about what constitutes a “blessing.” In my mind, Britain’s Sir David Attenborough’s video What a Wonderful World exemplifies the idea of being blessed. As my U.S. readers may (or may not) know, Sir David is Britain’s foremost naturalist. He’s best known for his natural history film-making and broadcasting.
I’m taking a few days off from blogging for the Thanksgiving holiday, but I’ll leave you with Attenborough’s wonderful creation…
Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S. Anglophile friends!
I do think an annual day for counting one’s blessings is a good thing, even if we quibble about what constitutes a “blessing.” In my mind, Britain’s Sir David Attenborough’s video What a Wonderful World exemplifies the idea of being blessed. As my U.S. readers may (or may not) know, Sir David is Britain’s foremost naturalist. He’s best known for his natural history film-making and broadcasting.
I’m taking a few days off from blogging for the Thanksgiving holiday, but I’ll leave you with Attenborough’s wonderful creation…
Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S. Anglophile friends!
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