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24-25 November, 2004 - "Thanksgiving"

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
--Marcel Proust

In my last entry I wrote about my beloved neighbor Ralph Cole who was murdered Sunday in broad daylight. This Thursday is Thanksgiving, a time of family and appreciation of life. Despite his death and the bad awful year I have had I still consider myself a lucky man. I won't let the bad times get me down, for that would mean I gave up on everything I ever worked toward. It is best said here: "Do not get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time."(Galatians 6:9)

On Monday I along with my mother bought flowers and took them to his family. I can only hope that by showing kindness and love I have helped them know they are not alone during this period of grieving.

I learned more regarding his death and it just is really a disgrace a good man is no longer with us. He had just been to the New Orleans Saints game in the Louisiana Superdome and had come home for a short period. The Coles live next door to his parents and his sisters the Wares. They are truly a family that sticks together and one can see that in how they all go watch the Saints games being a family affair.

After returning on Sunday he usually rides his motorcycle and joined two friends to spend some time with before it was late in the day. While getting gas with his friends apparently at the gas station, just after paying inside a man came up for no reason and shot Ralph repeatedly in the killing him instantly. The murderer ran off to a waiting car and drove off.

Apparently the police now know who the gunman was and that he thought Ralph was someone else. Hopefully an arrest or arrests will be made shortly to get these people who are a violent threat too all those they come in to contact with.

To whomever is the murderer I say you are a violent threat to your community and no matter what reason you may have for this act nothing will ever justify or condone your actions on Sunday. You must be removed from the streets for which you refuse to abide with as I say the essence of being a good citizen and that being to ' love thy neighbor'. You have failed and must be locked away so that you can not ever hurt anyone again. I do not wish upon you the death penalty, as I do not believe in an eye for an eye. Your execution will never bring back Ralph Cole to life and I do not hate you or wish you suffering either. I simply put my faith in the law that you will be brought to justice and prosecuted to the full extent of the law so that you may not harm anyone else again. For I choose the path of love and forgiveness.

This was in Tuesdays edition of the New Orleans Newspaper: "Ralph Cole, 46, of New Orleans, died from a gunshot wound to the head, said John Gagliano, coroner's office spokesman. Cole was killed in the 4500 block of Chef Menteur Highway near Louisa Street about 4:45 p.m. Police said someone walked up to him as he sat on a curb and opened fire. Police are working to identify the shooter and the reason for the killing. Third District detective Jeff Jacob is in charge of the investigation. Police ask anyone with information to call Crimestoppers at 822-1111."--Times Picayune

In present as well as the past their has been violent conflicts and this will continue to occur due to mankind's ignorance. For man does not ask in the heat of the moment 'what is the wise thing to do?'

My ex-fianc�e whom I dearly love always thought terribly of Americas 'Thanksgiving Holiday'. I disagree with her that we should not celebrate this day. However I completely understand her utter contempt and disgust for this holiday and agree of the racism still carried out by most people out of utter ignorance and stupidity even in the 21st Century. For a better understanding on this please read this article 'the Truth of Thanksgiving' and an article which you can view by clicking on the following picture:


'Native Americans have no reason to celebrate Thanksgiving'

While I do acknowledge the hypocrisies in American culture I do recognize the good as well. For that I am truly thankful. At the end of this entry one can read a Thanksgiving Prayer which is quite vulgar on the subject of American hypocrisy with the author being his utmost sarcastic on the grim subject.

Most people do not realize that the very first executive order by President George Washington was proclaiming Thanksgiving a national holiday. President Washington did this in part to help unify all Americans. It should not surprise anyone that Thomas Jefferson whom I personally to a high degree dislike was against it. After all he was the first President elected by a slave vote and his southern slave driven agriculture economy drove the United States to the civil war and later the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

Here is that actual executive order:

George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3rd day of October, A.D. 1789.
--George Washington

President Abraham Lincoln whom I consider the true heir to Washington's legacy 76 years later to the day gave this wonderful proclamation:

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.

We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father Who dwelleth in the heavens.

And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
--Abraham Lincoln

"Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way."
--Native American saying

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

"I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy."--Anne Frank

"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."--Albert Schweitzer

"Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."--Kahlil Gibran

"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."--Ayn Rand

"I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country.....The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."--Benjamin Franklin

"Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving."--Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy

"It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast."--W.J. Cameron

"Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments."--Mark Twain

"It is therefore recommended ... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor ..."--Samuel Adams

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."--WT Purkiser

"I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given."--US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace."--Kent Nerburn

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."--Aesop

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."--Edward Sandford Martin

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."--President John Kennedy

Thanksgiving
We return thanks to our mother, the earth,
which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams,
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs,
which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and stars,
which have given to us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to the sun,
that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in Whom is embodied all goodness,
and Who directs all things for the good of Her children.
--the Iroquois

I was ill yesterday and was not able to write, and am still quite sickly. Well that is all for now Happy Thanksgiving.
Let us all unite and give thanks for being alive and mark this togetherness as a symbol of how to live everyday with our fellow man.

Gobble Gobble,


PUBLIUS

CORNUCOPIA: (korn-yoo-KO-pee-uh)
One of the most recognizable symbols of Thanksgiving is the cornucopia, also called horn of plenty. It is a decorative motif, originating in ancient Greece, that symbolizes abundance. The original cornucopia was a curved goat's horn filled to overflowing with fruit and grain. It symbolizes the horn possessed by Zeus's nurse, the Greek nymph Amalthaea, which could be filled with whatever the owner wished.


I had to add one more quote, though its quite vulgar:

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
Thanks for the American Dream - to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks for the K.K.K.
For nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches.
For decent, church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter evil faces.
Thanks for Kill A Queer For Christ stickers.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
Thanks for prohibition, and the war against drugs.
Thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business.
Thanks for a nation of finks.
Yes, thanks for all the memories - "Alright, let's see your arms."
You always were a headache and you always were a bore.
Thanks, for the last and greatest betrayal, of the last and greatest of human dreams...
--William Burroughs

I had to add one more that is truly wonderful atleast to offset the last one as I can't close on that but this one I can:


"I like to walk alone on country paths,
rice plants and wild grasses on both sides,
putting each foot down on the earth
in mindfulness, knowing
that I walk on the wondrous earth.
In such moments, existence is a miraculous
and mysterious reality.

People usually consider walking on water
or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle
is not to walk either on water or in thin air,
but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle
which we don't even recognize:
a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves,
the black, curious eyes of a child--
our own two eyes.
All is a miracle."
--Thich Nhat Hanh


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