Thanksgiving Day, 2014

Thank you God for this holiday of remembrance and the giving of thanks for divine guidance and benevolence.

Thank you for filling us with your love and joy, so that neither darkness or cold on a zero degree morning with a 14 below wind chill dampen our spirits.

Thank you for giving us jobs to do: to curb Obama, to save the republic so that we can live free and prosper under our marvellous Constitution, to maverize.

Thank you for jobs to do and the health to get them done. Work sustains us materially, physically and psychologically, for a person that works has a genuine, ineradicable sense of worth.

Thank you for this day of leisure to enjoy good food, good drink and good company with family and friends.

Thank you that the Ferguson mess did not become even more ugly.

Thank you for a chance to understand how the world works. It is a bracing comfort to know what is going on, but there is no ultimate comfort, no ultimate satisfaction in living, if we do not come to grips with what we are about, and where we must head.

Thank you for our brave women and men in arms serving at home and abroad to protect this greatest nation, and to defend and extend her legitimate interests.

Thank for this platform to write from, and express ideas that may raise up a worried and dispirited population. They are not so bad that, with some direction, they could behave quite well, impressive even.

Thank you for the cat and the dog. Ava and Sam provide us with so much companionship and laughs with their antics. When she wakes me up at 315 am to be fed. When he turns his back on me and refuses to look at me when I leave for work.

Thank you for our children. They have enriched our lives beyond measure. We may not ever have grandchildren, but I am determined to step aside, so they can live as they wish, and to be grateful for what we have.

Thank you for your presence. You fill my soul with the significant happiness and contentment that I have experienced through out my stormy life.

Thank you for caring for humanity. We would not be alive or far without humans serving under your blessing, custody and protection.