These Thanksgiving centerpieces are my offering for AEM 27 and also for my celebration for the day (see the candles? only I can't light them because these are gifts and I have to wait for the giftees to get here. Key lime scented candles. yum.)
I am a most thankful person for the blogging community where I find myself. My days are brighter, my world bigger and I am happier for all of you. Thank for being in my community!
thought for the day: Listen/with the night falling we are saying thank you/we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings/we are running out of the glass rooms/with our mouths full of food to look at the sky/and say thank you/we are standing by the water looking out/to different directions
W.S. Merwin, Earth Prayers ed by Elizabeth roberts and Elias Amidon
We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters, the beans and squashes, which give us life. We return thanks to the winde, which, moving the air, has banished diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Iroquois prayer (adapted).
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thanks for all the thanks. 🙂 and thankful for a new president and new beginnings and new solutions and newness in general.
Tammy, your centerpieces are beautiful. I particularly like the one with the kale "flower". How lovely.
I too am very grateful for the blogging community I have discovered in this little corner of the internet. It is remarkably free of trolls and negative energy. We seem to share beauty and joy with each other, a wonderful antidote to the hate and negativity that I encounter in other corners.
The Iroquois prayer is beautiful, thanks for sharing it!
wishing you a happy thanksgiving too from rainy california on a pc with no mouse and a sticky keyboard
tammy, how beautiful, the words so moving….thank you for coming into my life in it's strangely synchronistic, magical way…my plaque is lovely, beyond words as are your tiny totems 🙂
many blessings to you and yours this day and all the days to come…
XO
Happy Thanksgiving Tammy! The centrepieces you have created are so full of life and colour! Beautiful! And I enjoyed reading your Iroquois prayer, returning thanks, yes, most definitely!! I am so happy to have met you through AEDM, your art is truly awe inspiring! Thank you Tammy! :o)
My dear Tammy, thanks for this post, I grateful for all of us too, and for the joy your blog gives me, for your beautiful art and the wise words:) I read this prayer aloud, and it soundes so good, makes me feel good!:) Have a lovely Thanksgiving day,
love
Andrea
Also – YOU make ME happy! 🙂
I'm grateful for you too – blogging friends definitely brighten up my day. Love those centerpieces. What a cool idea! Wishing you and your family, a very happy Thanksgiving, Tammy~xo