THANKSGIVING DAY 



to review the happenings of the year, my hopes, 

 ambitions and enterprises. While at this task I 

 was struck by the thought that if we had a Grumble- 

 giving Day as well as a Thanksgiving Day, it would 

 be much more carefully celebrated. The first thing 

 I thought of was the bugs, blights, pests, weeds and 

 such things that I have been fighting with all sum- 

 mer. As I thought of them Thanksgiving Day 

 seemed very far away. But that mood did not last 

 long. After all they did not injure anything which 

 I was over-poweringly interested in. Life itself is 

 what I am chiefly interested in, and, while we have 

 food, clothing and shelter, it is as good one day as 

 another. I can be just as much alive mentally, 

 physically, spiritually on one day as another. A 

 rainy day is just as good as a sunny day if we 

 manage to get in tune with it. And having got a 

 fairly good hold of the truth that yesterday is dead 

 and to-morrow unborn, I find that I really can not 

 go away from the present day and the present 

 moment to seek the sources of thankfulness. It will 

 be the same on the 20th of October. I must find 

 in it all that I shall be thankful for. I do not think 



I shall be disappointed. 



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