\nMy earliest memories of Thanksgiving are from the Maritimes, in elementary school. My elementary teachers loved to decorate their rooms to point to a coming occasion: cardboard cutouts of turkeys, cornucopia, and pumpkins went up on the walls. Often we would color a thanksgiving picture and they’d all go up as well. Although I wasn’t good at colouring, I enjoyed the activity and loved looking at them after they were all hung up.<\/p>\n
\nWe all have much to be thankful for. Moreover, the Maritimes are agricultural, especially where I lived as an elementary-school-kid, so Thanksgiving seems to resonate more there, with its connection to harvest. We left there for a rather barren part of Newfoundland, which was an isolated navy base whose climate didn’t encourage farming. Thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated as much there as in the Maritimes.<\/p>\n
\nNext we returned to the Maritimes – this time, to Dartmouth. Dartmouth wasn’t agricultural, because it’s a city. Therefore, Thanksgiving was a long weekend there, but didn’t seem to bring the joy it had in rural PEI or the Annapolis Valley.<\/p>\n
I’m a big fan of Thanksgiving – agricultural people seem to love the fall. (Perhaps they love every season, since it’s all nature, which they count on.) I was never a farmer myself, but grew up around them and developed, more than any other, their philosophy. I had no idea, at age 10, how important those farmers and their whole world was, and would continue to be to me, evermore. I guess that’s one more thing I’m thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving:)<\/p>\n
BTW: I recall my coaches’ (it was a weight-class sport) annual Thanksgiving advice: “Don’t eat the whole turkey.”<\/p>\n
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merriam-webster.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about Thanksgiving: the tutor reflects…. My earliest memories of Thanksgiving are from the Maritimes, in elementary school. My elementary teachers loved to decorate their rooms to point to a coming occasion: cardboard cutouts of turkeys, cornucopia, and pumpkins went …<\/p>\n