GAlady
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Happy Thanksgiving Day - 2023
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GAlady
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Pappy
Living the Dream
Happy Thanksgiving:
Mizmo
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- Ontario, Canada
American Friends
I have some already made Bob Evans mashed taters I'm going to pop in the microwave pretty soon
hearlady
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- N Carolina
Hope all that celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful day!
I did and now the day is done and it's time to rest.
I did and now the day is done and it's time to rest.
David777
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Happy Thanksgiving indeed all SF folks!
Today was mostly alone. Early this afternoon under mostly sunny 70F skies sat down for an hour beside an urban all year stream beneath shady cottonwoods, willows, and American sweetgums with fall leaves all about and color in trees. The stream maybe 20 feet across and shallow at most thigh deep had 3 enormous salmon spawning naturally in stream cobbles. Due to the shady light in the stream, I could not see down underneath the water much except right below at my feet. But just wanted to watch, wonder, and enjoy.
However the big female usually most upstream was about 30 inches long and the two males a bit shorter. So their backs and fins often stuck well out of the stream rippling flow. And that also caused sounds fins make atop water when big fish wiggle atop water. The smooth often flattish stone cobbles on the bottom would have a layer of slippery algae atop so the female fish pushing their body's against that smooth surface where the water flow would assist downward motion can easily stabilize their position to more easily push eggs out into spaces between the stones where current won't push them downstream. Downstream where all manner of things would welcome eating the tiny orange round blobs.
When I first arrived and sat down on a boulder, the male fish tentatively noticed me. But I was wearing dark colors, blues, blacks. And I was quiet and peaceful, watching, so the Vibe in the Universe became most wonderful. A once in a lifetime experience for this fishermen. Even after I later stood up they continued their dance of reproductive life as they do, even like they were also performing in harmony for one of their Earth cousins in our wonderful organic paradise.
A fascinating reality of this 2023 AD Thanksgiving is how anyone can now just web search with say "thanksgiving & grateful" and get search hits for all manner of page listing grateful categories. The below is just a part of one example list. Worth a read for increasing neural plasticity by massaging cross connections with broad higher level social behaviors for we Earth monkey's wisdom.
500 Things To Be Grateful For Today
Body
Healthy lungs for breathing
A strong heart
Eyes that give you vision to see the world
Ears to hear music and laughter
A nose to smell flowers and freshly baked cookies
A tongue (and taste buds!) to taste your favorite foods
Lips to kiss your partner, your children, or your pets
A functioning brain for thinking, problem-solving, and all-around living
Healthy legs for walking, running, and dancing
Arms for hugging the people you love
Hands and fingers that allow you write, draw, and hold a hot mug of something warm and tasty
An immune system that keeps you healthy
A liver that removes harmful toxins
Muscles that help you to move, lift, speak, and enjoy life to the fullest
Strong bones to help you stand, move, and experience the world
Resilient, self-repairing skin that shields and protects you
Those scars you have that are proof of a life fully lived
Yourself
Your skills and talents
Your kindness
Your compassion
Your strength
Your courage
Your resilience
The challenges you’ve faced with your own courage and strength
Your ability to see the world through the eyes of love and appreciation
How far you’ve come
Your endless capacity to love
Your ability to persevere, even when life feels hard
Your generous heart
Your integrity
Your intelligence
Your creativity
Your problem-solving skills
Your deepest, most heartfelt dreams
Your passions
Your humor
Your unending hope
Nature
Sunsets and sunrises
Dreamy blue skies
Fluffy white clouds
The breeze against your skin on a warm day
The endless beauty of the ocean
That glorious mountain in the distance (or the one you’ve climbed)
The trees that stay rooted to the ground, no matter how hard the wind blows
The changing of the leaves from lovely green to spectacular reds, oranges, and yellows
A peaceful lake, river, or creek
The warm sand beneath your bare feet
The brightness of the full moon
A sky full of stars on a clear night
Beautiful, majestic wild animals
The soft whisper of the snow as it blankets the earth
That one place you can always find peace, no matter how heavy life feels
Birds chirping outside your window
The smell of freshly cut grass
Wildflowers
Lavender fields
People & Relationships
Your mother
Your father
Your siblings
Your children
Your partner
Your grandparents
Your stepmother
Your stepfather
An adult who helped raise you
Your aunts and uncles
Your cousins
Your nieces and nephews
Your in-laws
Your first best friend
Your high school best friends
Your college best friends
Your current best friends
Today was mostly alone. Early this afternoon under mostly sunny 70F skies sat down for an hour beside an urban all year stream beneath shady cottonwoods, willows, and American sweetgums with fall leaves all about and color in trees. The stream maybe 20 feet across and shallow at most thigh deep had 3 enormous salmon spawning naturally in stream cobbles. Due to the shady light in the stream, I could not see down underneath the water much except right below at my feet. But just wanted to watch, wonder, and enjoy.
However the big female usually most upstream was about 30 inches long and the two males a bit shorter. So their backs and fins often stuck well out of the stream rippling flow. And that also caused sounds fins make atop water when big fish wiggle atop water. The smooth often flattish stone cobbles on the bottom would have a layer of slippery algae atop so the female fish pushing their body's against that smooth surface where the water flow would assist downward motion can easily stabilize their position to more easily push eggs out into spaces between the stones where current won't push them downstream. Downstream where all manner of things would welcome eating the tiny orange round blobs.
When I first arrived and sat down on a boulder, the male fish tentatively noticed me. But I was wearing dark colors, blues, blacks. And I was quiet and peaceful, watching, so the Vibe in the Universe became most wonderful. A once in a lifetime experience for this fishermen. Even after I later stood up they continued their dance of reproductive life as they do, even like they were also performing in harmony for one of their Earth cousins in our wonderful organic paradise.
A fascinating reality of this 2023 AD Thanksgiving is how anyone can now just web search with say "thanksgiving & grateful" and get search hits for all manner of page listing grateful categories. The below is just a part of one example list. Worth a read for increasing neural plasticity by massaging cross connections with broad higher level social behaviors for we Earth monkey's wisdom.
500 Things To Be Grateful For Today
Body
Healthy lungs for breathing
A strong heart
Eyes that give you vision to see the world
Ears to hear music and laughter
A nose to smell flowers and freshly baked cookies
A tongue (and taste buds!) to taste your favorite foods
Lips to kiss your partner, your children, or your pets
A functioning brain for thinking, problem-solving, and all-around living
Healthy legs for walking, running, and dancing
Arms for hugging the people you love
Hands and fingers that allow you write, draw, and hold a hot mug of something warm and tasty
An immune system that keeps you healthy
A liver that removes harmful toxins
Muscles that help you to move, lift, speak, and enjoy life to the fullest
Strong bones to help you stand, move, and experience the world
Resilient, self-repairing skin that shields and protects you
Those scars you have that are proof of a life fully lived
Yourself
Your skills and talents
Your kindness
Your compassion
Your strength
Your courage
Your resilience
The challenges you’ve faced with your own courage and strength
Your ability to see the world through the eyes of love and appreciation
How far you’ve come
Your endless capacity to love
Your ability to persevere, even when life feels hard
Your generous heart
Your integrity
Your intelligence
Your creativity
Your problem-solving skills
Your deepest, most heartfelt dreams
Your passions
Your humor
Your unending hope
Nature
Sunsets and sunrises
Dreamy blue skies
Fluffy white clouds
The breeze against your skin on a warm day
The endless beauty of the ocean
That glorious mountain in the distance (or the one you’ve climbed)
The trees that stay rooted to the ground, no matter how hard the wind blows
The changing of the leaves from lovely green to spectacular reds, oranges, and yellows
A peaceful lake, river, or creek
The warm sand beneath your bare feet
The brightness of the full moon
A sky full of stars on a clear night
Beautiful, majestic wild animals
The soft whisper of the snow as it blankets the earth
That one place you can always find peace, no matter how heavy life feels
Birds chirping outside your window
The smell of freshly cut grass
Wildflowers
Lavender fields
People & Relationships
Your mother
Your father
Your siblings
Your children
Your partner
Your grandparents
Your stepmother
Your stepfather
An adult who helped raise you
Your aunts and uncles
Your cousins
Your nieces and nephews
Your in-laws
Your first best friend
Your high school best friends
Your college best friends
Your current best friends