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Happiest of Thanksgivings 2024!

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Neal Saye

A Few Things for which I Give Thanks:

1. My breath. In. Out. In. Out.

2. This trash I saw yesterday morning in our alley.

Couldn’t that be in an art gallery? The browns, grays, beige, white.

Or is my old age catching up with me?

3. Yummy lunch at Cracker Barrel with Robert’s daughter and son.

4. Grandson Gabriel starting AS A FRESHMAN on his high school VARSITY basketball team.

**They won their first game of the season yesterday.**

5. Always, ALWAYS, having enough food to eat. (Everybody doesn’t.)

6. Shoes.

7. Living so close to the ocean.

Tybee Island (Savannah Beach), twenty minutes from us.

8. The privilege of voting (even when it doesn’t go our way).

9. The ability to WALK. What a blessing!

Granddaughter Isabelle and Ex-wife Donna. Walking.

10. Indoor plants.

Our bamboo baby in a corner of our living room.

11. All of you fellow bloggers.

Tell me, what are you thankful for on this beautiful day?

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In Flanders Fields

Posted on May 27, 2024May 27, 2024 by Neal Saye

From 1914 to 1918, Flanders Fields was a major battle theatre on the Western Front during the First World War. A million soldiers from more than 50 different countries were wounded, missing or killed in action here. visitflanders.com

The poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, by John McCrae, went on to inspire the use of the poppy, which once grew on the battlefields of Flanders Fields, to become an enduring symbol of remembrance across the world.

HAVE A BLESSED MEMORIAL DAY 2024

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Happy 4th!

Posted on July 4, 2023July 4, 2023 by Neal Saye

I hope you are enjoying a happy/healthy 4th of July today.

Here’s HR sending you a sparkling “Holiday Hello!” from both of us.

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Happy Pride Month 2023! “Is Your Dog Gay?”

Posted on June 29, 2023June 29, 2023 by Neal Saye

So Robert and I were walking around in Pet Smart today, minding our own business, when we came upon this …

Seriously? Gay trappings for your pet?

My first reaction was “Oh, how cute!”

My second was “Big business, marketing whatever can sale.“

A gay lizard and a gay gerbil, obviously.

Then my gay husband put it all into perspective …

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Juneteenth 2023

Posted on June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 by Neal Saye

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The Other Side of Thanksgiving

Posted on November 25, 2022November 26, 2022 by Neal Saye

I love Thanksgiving!

I always have. It is so wonderful for our nation to have a special day set aside for GRATITUDE.

Except …

What we often forget (or at least try to forget) (or refuse to even believe) is that the traditional First Thanksgiving Day taught in grade school and fixed in our individual and national consciousness is a Disney-fied mythology.

Here’s a terrifically sobering post from a wonderful blog, “Esperational.” The You Tube video is eye- (and heart-) opening. Please take a moment to read the short post and watch the short video.

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It has been my tradition on Thanksgiving to honor the other side of the story. For members of the first nations of this country this is a day of …
The Other Side of Thanksgiving

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