Happy ThanksGiving

It's Thanksgiving Day.

It's not from my culture to celebrate it because I am not american but it means a lot to me because when I and my husband were not married yet, and he wanted to get closer to me and know me better, it came to his mind to arrange a Thankgiving lunch so he could invite me. So he did and I accepted unaware of what was in his mind. It was a long time ago.

But did you know that the first Thanksgiving was not made by the Puritans ? Let's then remember the real First Thankgiving. 

"Blaring trumpets and thundering serenaded Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés as he waded ashore on September 8, 1565. The Spanish admiral kissed a cross held aloft by the fleet's captain, Father Francisco Lopez, then claimed Florida for both his God and his country. As curious members of the indigenous Timucua tribe looked on, the 800 newly arrived colonists gathered around a makeshift altar as Father Lopez performed a Catholic Mass of thanksgiving for their safe arrival in the newly christened settlement of St. Augustine. At the invitation of Menéndez, the Timucuans then joined the newcomers in a comunal meal.

Some Florida historians have argued that this feast - and not the one held 56 years later by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags in Plymouth, Massachusetts - was actually North America's First Thanksgiving. It was the first community act of religion and thanksgiving in the first permanent settlement in the land", wrote University of Florida Professor Emmeritus of History Michael Gannon in his book The Cross in the Sand."

(https://myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/article/140 )

Anyway, as most in America celebrate it today, let's give thanks for everything Our Lord gives us.

Have your turkey with your family and friends and have a very happy Thanksgiving Day.

Happy ThanksGiving

It's Christmas time !

I have longing for writing a post about Christmas. Each year, as Summer ends, when I think of Christmas, I don't allow myself to develop much, only on the 27 or 28 of October I go in Christmas mode. 

So, this year, it was not even midday of the 27, I decided that the season was open and began singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, first in my mind, as I was at work, but then when I arrived at home, I began singing at the top of my lungs.

It was Christmas in my soul!

And since then I have been thinking about it and planning and dreaming. Things that I will buy for my children and others, things I will buy for me and for the home, which improvements I will do in the house, which wrapping papers I still have and which ones I will buy. And strings and bows. 

And what about the food, what will I make ?

Will it be very cold in  the Christmas day or warmer ? Will it rain ?

And my mind flies, happy, dreaming of all those nice things.

I must clarify that, in this corner of the world, we haven't Thanksgiving and Halloween is a foreigner idea which has nothing to do with our culture, even if the shops explore the idea to their own profit, with lots of people embarking in celebration of witches day.

Anyway, from the middle of the Autumn I begin living the pre-Christmas days. And what joy that is.

I will keep posting about that happiness till we arrive at the day.

It's Autumn

 

It's Autumn. It feels so good to say that. It's Autumn...

To think that Summer has gone it's such a relief to my soul. I really don't like it. I don't feel well in the heat, the sun is too bright and gives me head aches, the air is dry and as if it was not enough, the display of half naked people all around disgusts me. Too much body showing around, which is at the same time immoral and unaesthetic.

But now it ended. 

All over the floor there are fallen leaves blowing with the breaze. Oh, good times with in this nice weather.

I'm happy.

First the Autumn came so nicely in the end of September. Then it went away again. Usually by the middle of October the time is really nice with down temperatures. I always have tights and a coat from the 15 of October on. But not this year. It was not hot but it was not cool either. I didn't like it. But then, in the end of October, that glorious month, the Autumn came back in full swing. Now I'm happy. First it rained for some days and now we have blue skies and a nice sun.

The temperatures are going down. Today, for the first time, I wore my coat, a short one, but it's a coat. Everything is in its place.