Harvest Holiday
Oct. 14th, 2003 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onefixedstarI was trying to explain the Canadian Thanksgiving to a Ukranian friend last Friday. I wasn't able to come up with any sort of mythology or customs other than eating turkey and visiting family (and the usual harvest stuff). Well, and as was observed in The Globe and Mail recently, dumping your high school boyfriend/girlfriend if you're a first year university student, but that one didn't seem applicable to her. On the whole, it's a pretty customless holiday--we don't even have stories of pilgrims to tell, just the usual thankfulness for the harvest which always seems faintly ridiculous coming from dedicated urban-dwellers who buy their food from the supermarket year-round. I do think mindfulness of the change of the seasons is good thing, but Thanksgiving as we celebrate it rarely dwells on that.
Now having gone on about that, I have to say that my Thanksgiving was lovely. I went up to see my mom and sibs on Sunday, and had the traditional turkey dinner with them, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle. As is customary, we ate far too much (the late night candy run with my siblings didn't help with that) and I came back feeling far more cheerful than I have for a while (although that could be the turkey and pumpkin pie they sent me back with). Perhaps family and food is reason enough for a holiday.
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semiotic_trader and a_just_society, I hope you had a good time. We missed you. Where are you spending Christmas?
Now having gone on about that, I have to say that my Thanksgiving was lovely. I went up to see my mom and sibs on Sunday, and had the traditional turkey dinner with them, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle. As is customary, we ate far too much (the late night candy run with my siblings didn't help with that) and I came back feeling far more cheerful than I have for a while (although that could be the turkey and pumpkin pie they sent me back with). Perhaps family and food is reason enough for a holiday.
semiotic_trader and a_just_society, I hope you had a good time. We missed you. Where are you spending Christmas?
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Date: 2003-10-14 12:33 pm (UTC)We did have a good time up in Huntsville. The colours on the trees in Algonquin were very nice, although the drives both down and back were very long. We're glad to hear you were thinking of us. As for Christmas, the only thing we know for sure so far is that we will both be doing Christmas dinner with our (i.e., yours and my) family, since I did dinner with his family last year. Beyond that, plans are as yet unmade.
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Date: 2003-10-14 05:51 pm (UTC)Maybe a neutral day isn't so bad; some native groups aren't so fond of either Columbus day or American Thanksgiving for fairly obvious reasons. A neutral excuse to get people together seems like a fine idea in my books. Less political issues over it that way :)
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Date: 2003-10-14 08:08 pm (UTC)Indeed, although the kidlets are growing up fast.
It's just been a while since I've seen any of our cousins.
Well this should work perfectly then. :)