On Being Thankful (Poems and Pictures)

Hey, guys! I hope you’re all having a fantastic Thanksgiving. Honestly, I feel like I was just doing this – as each year passes, the time flies faster. If you’re not in too much of a food coma, I hope that you’ll take a few minutes to read this post. The poems are not mine, and I’m not quite sure who wrote them exactly, but I thought they would be appropriate for today.

I’m accompanying the poems with pictures I took of things other than dolls. Quick warning, though – they’re completely unedited (except where I blurred out the info on Jax and Callie’s collars). 🙂 So if you dare to look, go ahead . . .

Mom and Dad and all the folks

Who sit around the table

Railroad tracks in Girdwood, AK

All give thanks to the Lord above

For the fact that we are able

 

Taken from a float plane but I have no idea where we were at the time 🙂

To have the food and shelter 

We all need to survive

And have the love of family

That makes it good to be alive

Lord, as we bow our heads to pray

We celebrate Thanksgiving Day

 

Homer Harbor in Homer, AK

Help us have the right attitude

As we turn to You (sic) in gratitude

 

 

 

Fireweed in Homer, AK

Thank you for our festive food;

Thank you, Lord, for this good food;

On the beach in Homer, AK

Thank for blessings great and small;

Thank you, thank you for it all

 

 

Near Nikiski, AK

So grateful for the whispers

Of loved ones departed

 

Kachemak Bay, Homer, AK

Still here to warm our hearts

As we gather ’round the table

 

Kachemak Bay, Homer, AK

So grateful for the right now

With loved ones by our side

 

For another chance to laugh and share

And speak out loud

 

University of Texas Campus, Austin, TX

Our thanks

For one another

 

 

Let me know what you thought in the comments, and tell me all about your Thanksgiving traditions and feast!

 

 

 

 

Credits: Thanksgiving Blessings by Joanna Fuchs

 

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