Mostly whimsy and drivel of no consequence. And CHEESE.
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving (Yesterday)
9Oct2007 Filed under: Celebrate! Author: Kate BartholomewAlways a day late (or at least a few hours) and a dollar short.
Nevertheless, I’d like to wish all my beloved Canucks a (slightly belated ) Happy Thanksgiving! I hope Canada had a bountiful harvest. That, I will add, is the nice thing about Canadian Thanksgiving; you give thanks and have pie without any of the contradictory feelings of American Thanksgiving (celebration versus GUILT and such).
It was also Columbus Day (in the United States, I should clarify). Talk about your paradoxical holiday.
I will only say this about Columbus Day: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” has got to be one of the greatest mnemonic sayings ever.
And if you think I picked this particular cornucopia just because it had a tiny pineapple in it, you are spot on.
terry
October 10th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Your cornucopia is lovely, pineapple and all.
Do Americans feel guilt at Thanksgiving? I wonder if Canadians feel particularly guilty about anything. I doubt it, unless maybe a handful remember the shame of the Japanese internment in WWII. Or blowing up Chinese workers to build railways. But other than that? I dunno.
Kate
October 10th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I’m sure that many Americans don’t think of it at all, but I feel ambivalent (the word I COULD NOT THINK OF YESTERDAY NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED AND NOW IT JUST POPPED OUT OF MY BRAIN LIKE NUTHIN’) about the Pilgrims and mistreatment of and all the disease given to the indigenous people (same thing with Columbus Day) and then a couple of centuries later the Government sees fit to either massacre or imprison the indigenous people of the land to tiny CRAPPY pieces of land. Yes, my ancestors were ignorant, and I don’t know if I’d be here if it hadn’t happened that way – indeed, the World wouldn’t be as we know it, but still…
As for the interment camps, I think we had corner on the market there (and I believe STARTED that lovely trend). We had a camp in Utah named Topaz.
AND I think the same goes for the railroads; “Americans” were nasty mean to the Chinese and Irish and all the immigrant workers on the railroad.
Though if you would like your share of guilt (you never know what holiday might come up where it’s appropriate: Evidently it’s “Squirrel Week,” so perhaps next week might be “Guilt for the Sins of our Forefathers Week”), you could no doubt dredge up some heinous acts against First Nations People. It’s been a while since I’ve been through the Canadian museums so I can’t recall something off the top of my head.
**Sigh** But isn’t the pineapple pretty?