Happy Thanksgiving to the ASAH Family!

[Kind of Blue]

However you may spend tomorrow, I send heartfelt blessings of safe journeys, peace of mind and good times.

[Why Syzygy]

1. Thank you , KoB

:hug: You and your's too! :yourock:

[FirstLight]

2. Blessings to ALL my ASAH Family...!

The time that i have spent here in this little group has been really sacred. I value your opinions, your shared information and your laughter!

:grouphug:
This is the best "group therapy" i can think of! lol

Here's to Celebrating the Bountiful Harvest We Have, in SO many WAYS
may it continue to nourish us tenfold through the dark winter solstice..

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Thanks and to you too

remember folks originally these are agricultural festivals going back a LONG TIME... like probably to the first years men and women tilled the land.

It should be a way to reestablish connections not just with friends and family but also with the planet

And this comes from a pretty agnostic \ atheist person.

(I guess this is the historian in me, and due to a novel I have actually been readying into the ancient rites... hey at least no temple prostitutes are involved any more!)

[Silver Gaia]

4. Happy Harvest! Happy Feast Day!

As we give thanks for the gifts we have received, may our gratitude be returned to us in prosperity and abundance.

Blessings to the ASAH Family!

[I Have A Dream]

5. Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Americans in the group. Blessings to everyone.

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little;
and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick;
and if we got sick, at least we didn't die. So let us all be thankful."

- Buddha

[JanusAscending]

6. Thank you "Blue"!

and the same to you and of course the rest of our family here!! It's been a year of ups and downs for all of us, but we have clung to each other as only loving family would. I know I've been blessed by you all, and hope I've touched a few hearts as well. I will remember you all tomorrow as I sit at the family table, and count my blessings and all of the bounty that is supplied by our Universe! :grouphug: JA

[Shallah Kali]

7. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

:grouphug:

[SeattleGirl]

8. Happy Thanksgiving to you, KoD and to everyone in ASAH!

All of you, and all of your thoughts and insights mean more to me than I can say, and I am truly thankful for all of you.

:grouphug:

[northernlights]

9. Happy thanksgiving to all at ASAH

and thank you Kind of Blue for starting this thread and the lovely image to go with it.

:grouphug:

[MorningGlow]

10. Blessings of abundance on this celebration of the harvest

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! Love you guys! :hug:

[BanzaiBonnie]

11. And to all of you

Have a lovely day full of good cheer and good food.

[GardeningGal]

12. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Hope everybody has a wonderful day.

[Sanity Claws]

13. Happy Thanksgiving to you,KofB, and everyone here at ASAH

Kisses and hugs to everyone.
We have almost made it through another year.

[rumpel]

14. How beautiful! Happy Thanksgiving!

Many many things to be thankful for...

Thank you ASAH family!

:hi:

[Cleita]

15. Blessed harvest celebration to everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving too!

[Sweet Freedom]

16. Happy Thanksgiving!

My gratitude for this group is immeasurable. :hug:

Blessings to you all, and to your families however big or small.

[rosesaylavee]

17. Hope you and everyone here

has a restful and wonderful day! Be safe and enjoy!

[southerncrone]

18. Happy Thanksgiving to all at ASAH!

When we gather together with our individual families today, let us not forget to be thankful for all the love & light we receive from our ASAH "family", too. This is truly a special place & the sharing we do here has benefits that reach well beyond our little realm. I feel like we all ripple the good we receive here out to the entire planet. Blessed be.
:grouphug:
Thanks for starting this thread, Kind of Blue!

[OneGrassRoot]

19. How lovely, Kind of Blue...

I join you in sending blessings to all. :)

:grouphug:

[hermetic]

20. Just wanted to jump into

this hug fest. :)

Thanks, everyone, and Kind of Blue. That's a gorgeous image.

Thought I would share a lovely bit I read today, by Jon Carroll at the SF Gate.

"Gratitude is the antidote. It is a specific against a variety of diseases, from something as vague as the discontents of civilization to something as specific as personal grief - gratitude is the antidote. Thanksgiving is the holiday of gratitude, and I am always willing to celebrate it."

Hope everyone enjoys their day, however they choose to spend it.

:grouphug:

[Sienna86]

21. Blessings and abundance to all

Happy Thanksgiving!

[BlueIris]

22. Nice art.

I hope we all get through this day without incident.

[juno jones]

23. Happy thanksgiving, all.

Blessed be!

(This year even more special since much of my meal is coming from the spider and fairy-filled garden that was attended by myself and a laughing Ho-ti this summer.

It brings home the lesson of gratitude so well... ;) )

[lildreamer316]

24. Bountiful Harvest to everyone!!

Hope it was a great day... I am very grateful for ALL of you. :loveya:

[Missy Vixen]

25. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

I'm a little late, but I am still thankful.

I also hope there will be even more to be thankful for for all of you in the coming year.

:loveya: :hug:

[Kind of Blue]

26. My, Goodness! Coming back here at the end

of this day is beyond gratifying! It's like saving enough room for that hot piece of apple pie with a dollop of ice cream - so good :grouphug:

[MorningGlow]

27. APPLE PIE FOR BREAKFAST!!

Who's with me?
:rofl:



(Disclaimer: Not mine, although I have leftovers in the fridge. I'm just too lazy to get the camera out...)

[Callie McAllie]

28. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday

with food, family and friends.

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. To you and to everyone as well!

Sorry, was offline over the holiday weekend. Weird experience :scared:

[winyanstaz]

30. Thank you Blue :) very nice and very kind of you.

I hope you and yours had a lovely holiday and All the rest of the group as well. :) Blessed Be everyone :)

[Kind of Blue]

31. Thank you All for the incredible well-wishes

to each other. I'm just regaining my senses :rofl:

I can't tell you how being able to see such goodwill every day during this holiday helped me to get through it!!! Really, I had about a million people - seemed like a million, just 20 in and out of here for 4 days. It was great madness filled with feisty little girls who refused to sleep, cranky 80 year old dad who I have to apologize to - though the argument was not my fault - being a shuttle driver, kids' new boyfriends and girlfriends (I'm deliciously reserving later judgment :evilgrin:) oh yeah, tons of food meaning tons of cleaning and other insanities. The usual holiday with family :rofl:

Yeah, let's do it again next year! Who's with me??? Not me :rofl: No, really there were lots of good times, tons of laughter and no one died from overeating :)

[Kind of Blue]

32. I don't know why this turned into an OP.

I was replying to the well-wishing one. See, I'm still crazy!

[OneGrassRoot]

33. You are so funny!

LOL! :rofl:

Glad you had a glorious holiday, even with all the craziness!

Me? I treasure my quiet, solitary holidays. Everyone thinks I'm crazy, especially when I'm alone over the Christmas holiday, but I look forward to that quiet time like you wouldn't believe. Other than volunteering with Meals-On-Wheels and/or the local shelter or food bank, it is very much ME time, knowing my daughter is having great fun in NYC with her dad and Mark is with his family in Wisconsin.

Just me and the kittehs have the house to ourselves. Yay!!!!

But I'll gladly send hugs of support your way as you and others ready for the next round of family insanity and chaos!! ;)

:bounce:

[Kind of Blue]

35. Lucky! No, I don't think you're crazy at all.

OneGrassRoot, before my parents moved here the holidays were nice, quiet mini vacations. All us sisters liked it just fine with occasional meet-ups. Now, they're here and have to see Everybody all at once.
I'll take the hugs of support because Christmas is just around the corner :rofl:

[MorningGlow]

34. Hold on there, missy

Sounds like you had too good a time and that you really love your family members (despite the occasional argument). Didn't you get the memo? You are required to despise your family members and label all relationships as dysfunctional, or you're not allowed to post on DU. Your tombstone will be delivered in the next half hour or so. :evilgrin:

Seriously, so glad you had a "relatively" good time (get it? snarf) and you all survived.

So! What's on for Christmas? :hi:
:rofl:

[Kind of Blue]

36. Oh, you see right through me and I fear

my days on DU are numbered :rofl:

Took me a minute but I get it, funny girl.

Christmas! I'm bringing everybody with me to your beautiful newly remodeled house :rofl:

[MorningGlow]

37. Bring. It. On!

I can handle it! My shiny new dining room laughs at the threat of an influx of people. Ha-HAH!

Hey, I can accommodate a wackjob uber-Catholic aunt who worships Glen Beck--I can handle ANYthing! (Wait...does that mean my family is dysfunctional? Phew--I can stay on DU! :P )

Seriously, I come from a formerly huge Italian family, now sadly shrunken. I miss "the good old days" when we used to have people packed to the rafters for holidays.