Happy Thanksgiving to you, Tulip.
That graphic is really cute. Thank you.
Enjoy the snow! I'm going to enjoy the frost and wish for snow. :)
How the Nation Can Best Show Its Gratitude
by Theodore Roosevelt
Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our ancestors for generations past, we are called upon to give praise and thanksgiving to God.
During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war. We are at peace with all the rest of humanity. Our natural resources are abundant, and we have been endowed with adequate knowledge to make good use of these resources.
Ours is the opportunity as a free people to develop to the fullest extent all our powers of body, of mind, and of that which stands above both body and mind -- of character.
Much has been given us from on high, and much will rightly be expected of us in return.
Into our care these resources of nature have been entrusted, and we are not to be pardoned either if we squander and waste them, or yet if we leave them undeveloped, for they must be made fruitful in our hands.
Ever through the ages, at all times and among all peoples, prosperity has been fraught with danger, and it behooves us to beseech the Giver of all things that we may not fall into love of ease and luxury.
That we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility, that we may not forget our duty to God, and to our neighbor.
Our democracy, based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if, in the heart of its citizens, there dwells a keen sense of righteousness and justice.
Let us pray that this spirit of righteousness and justice may grow in the hearts of all of us. May our souls be ever inclined toward the virtues that tell for gentleness and tenderness, for loving-kindness and forbearance, one toward another.
For only by love and patience, courage and fortitude can either nation or individual rise to the level of greatness.
Let us then as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindness and good will toward all, but with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, let us strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life.
Hi Amy! The snow is sticking in a few places here and there. There wasn't enough to cover the grass, but it was pretty while it was coming down. Do you get snow in Fresno?