Today is the last day for the “Feast”. After spending the day there with that wonderful smell of campfires…you return home with it following you….not really so bad.
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When we used to camp with the church youth, for a week afterwards, every shower that we took, we still reeked of smoke.
Thanks giving? I would give thanks — if everyone else on Earth had enough clean, safe drinking water and nutritional food to maintain a normal, healthy life.
Too many people are choosing between which necessity of life they can afford — nutritious food or warm shelter. Meanwhile, the more that giant-grocer corporations make, all the more they irresistibly want to and likely will make next quarter. It’s never enough. No wonder food banks are strained. Unmet food needs are exacerbated by price inflation, while corporate profits and payouts to CEOs correspondingly inflate.
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Pass me the holiday turkey, peas
and the delicious stuffing flanked
by buttered potatoes with gravy
since I’ve said grace with plenty ease
for the good food received I’ve thanked
my Maker who’s found me worthy.
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It seems that unlike the many of those
in the unlucky Third World nation
I’ve been found by God deserving
to not have to endure the awful woes
and the stomach wrenching starvation
suffered by them with no dinner serving.
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Therefor hand over to me the corn
the cranberry sauce, fresh baked bread
since for my grub I’ve praised the Lord
yet I need not hear about those born
whose meal I’ve been granted instead
as they receive naught of the grand hoard.