Tagged: Thanksgiving

Giving Thanks to The Bountiful State

A great friend in Pennsylvania sent me an e-mail noting that in recent days he has heard several public service announcements suggesting that the proper way to observe Thanksgiving would be to “give back to the community,” a typical progressive attempt to reinvent a traditional holiday for leftist aims. He went on to suggest that the idea of “giving back to the community”...

Happy (Korean) Thanksgiving

Wednesday, October 4th is Chuseok, the Korean harvest festival, a major national holiday scheduled according to the lunar calendar. The event has no strictly religious significance or affiliation, but is rather an ancient tradition of families gathering to welcome autumn by enjoying nature’s bounty, typical of any society that remains at least sentimentally attached to its agrarian, agricultural heritage. For a North American...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers! I know I’m a little late with this message, hopefully catching you basking in the afterglow of a great dinner with loved ones, and reflecting on your many blessings. As I like to think at Thanksgiving, and with more urgency each year, the personal blessings of our lives are more important than the public curses of...