I thought it most fitting that my column for this week be about Thanksgiving. In our world of instant and personal satisfaction, we sometimes forget to be thankful for some of the events in our lives and for some of our possessions, and about the people we hold close to our hearts. Our world is a world of sometimes instant change, new things both good and bad occur around us constantly. To those who are thinking people and aware of them, we know that nothing can be taken for granted, not even life itself. I have lost more people to death in the last little while than I could have imagined. So perhaps, in being thankful, perhaps we should take the season as one of remembrance. We have already started a couple of weeks ago, by remembering our Veterans of War and those who gave all for their country and community. Before that we celebrated the Spirits of us gone before during the Halloween. Thanksgiving comes at the end of harvest, when our ancestors used it to celebrate the fruits of their harvest. In many cases the succor that would sustain them and their animals through the cold winter months. We, or a majority of us, have given up that agrarian society, and our modern world has changed our lives considerably. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t still use this time to think about how good life has been to us. Throughout the spring and summer, we spent our time outdoors with sports and fishing and hiking and camping, going to festivals and concerts and outdoor events, and enjoying the life that we have to live. So as the leaves fall from the trees and the grasses turn from green to brown, and the north wind takes its journey from the polar regions once again, we find ourselves spending are time indoors in the warmth of our homes, close with family. That is a good time to teach the younger one about the traditions of the past and how our forebears though about the gifts of life. It would not hurt us or them to learn a bit about gratitude in even a fast-moving worl
