Month: November 2025

This velvety amber chair inspires this post; can you see yourself in it?  Dreaming about the approaching holidays, though many see their world blue as in loneliness and longing.  Good news!  Prophetic voices are telling us that prodigal sons and daughters are returning home to their families. Our prayers for the lost and abandoned will encourage them to return to where they belong.  Expect Miracles!

Back to the chair, I believe we each occupy a chair to fulfill a unique lifelong mission.  My own antique chartreuse Queen Anne chair recalls me sitting on my Papa’s lap learning to read and speak English.  Now I sit there to contemplate more writing.   What thoughts do you have sitting in your chair to reap the benefits of your well-deserved life?  A Bing Image.

Today I am happy to prepare a thanksgiving meal unlike what the Pilgrims celebrated in September 1621.  After a treacherous sailing from England, they established their Plymouth settlement near their neighboring Native Americans. According to the diary of Edward  Winslow and the governor of the first colony, William Bradford, they ate fowl, 5 deer, wild turkeys and venison, as well as lobster, seal, cod, bass, clams and mussels from the bay.  The vegetables came from the house gardens providing onions, leeks, sorrel, lettuce, carrots, radishes and watercress.  They also made meat pies, but because they lacked sugar, their sweets were jams from summer fruits.   In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.  Since then, 8 other countries, Canada, Germany, Liberia, Japan, Norfolk Island, Grenada, the Netherlands and Puerto Rico, have thanksgiving celebrations.

Thankful to the Pilgrims, we have a national day to be grateful for “Liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness.” May blessings abound in your family during this Thanksgiving holiday season. A Getty Image.