Thursday Ramble: An Old Stubfart Perspective On Thanksgiving

In Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving a couple weeks earlier than you Yanks do. For me the day passed without any real introspection or thought. It was just another day. The wife cooked up a small feast for us. I ate it all and belched and farted afterward like some unthinking austrolapithicene. Probly because I haven't been to a real family dinner in ten years now and have forgotten all my manners. I was ostracized, cancelled and banished ten years ago from The Hive for holding the wrong ideas and opinions, but it was all fine by me. I'd rather eat a ham and cheese sammich alone on Thanksgiving rather than spending a holiday with the modern progressive and soulless assholes that our family members had become. We kind of rejected each other, I guess. It used to tear me up inside but time heals, and this is my world, and all I can do is make whatever peace and tranquility I can for myself. The members of my former family are having to do the same. Shortly after my banishment they went to war amongst themselves. Divorces happened, people drifted away and their houses failed as mine did. But they remarried and cobbled together new houses so... maybe it worked out for them? 

Bah. None of my business. Whatever.

I do not ramble alone today, the Z Man has some great thoughts on this day of gratitude that are worth your time. He notes the growing soullessness of our holidays and the growing numbers of angry, ungrateful people that are a drag on us all - and often on themselves and families as well. The pundits are making sport and laughing in merriment about that retarded black bald baboon - Joy Reid, I think is her name? She is urging her followers to boycott the holidays as a way of punishing family members that voated the wrong way, that think the wrong way, and hold the wrong opinions. The conservative wanks are incensed and outraged by her antics, But then again, they are supposed to be. Someone, somewhere, is paying that woman enormous sums of money to push people's buttons and to stir up controversy and outrage... and credit where credit us due - she's very good at it. But it is important to remember that all she is - is a dancing monkey for the mainstream media, whose only function is to sell copy and generate ratings for advertisers. If she can increase her ratings by smearing herself with shit, shaving her head and refer to herself with meaningless pronouns - she will do it without a second thought. That's all the mainstream media is now - a menagerie of dancing monkeys, capering and gibbering for the likes, subscribes, and 15 seconds of your attention. Are there absent faces at your table on this day of peace and gratitude? And should you truly miss their presence?

It is one thing to give thanks for the obvious small things, the small people and the simple pleasantries we have been given that make our lives better. But there may be gifts for us that we never see, and don't even think of? Maybe it's a GOOD thing that your crazy aunt who guzzles wine by the box didn't show up this year? Maybe it's a GOOD thing that your batshit crazy daughter isn't in your life, tormenting you with her bullshit and failures and expecting you to pay for them? Maybe getting laid off from that soul crushing job is a GOOD thing?

Maybe the absence of stupid, angry people in your life is a good thing too? The things that look like curses often turn out to be good things in the long run, and often they are very good things. Is it possible to look at these 'curses' and give thanks for them too? 

I missed the Canadian Thanksgiving due to oversight and thoughtlessness on my part. It was, for me at the time... just a Turkey Day - and I was the brainless, gobbling, bird-brained turkey! HAR HAR HAR!!!

I think I will just borrow a small piece of your American Thanksgiving and make amends? I'd like to thank our Maker for all the obvious little things in my life, AND the hidden things that make no sense to me at the time. Thanks for looking out for me and thinking of me. Please help the ungrateful and angry people in my life - see the error of their ways. And please bless my American friends with tranquility and peace today and in these turbulent times.

Errrr... sorry for the preachin' and speechin'. I try to avoid it because I'm no good at it... but some things need to be said, regardless of how awkward.

Have a happy Thanksgiving you guys.

Filthie