Thanksgiving Proclamations - Mine & Abe's
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven;
We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity;
We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the
necessity of redeeming and preserving grace;
We have become too proud to pray to the God that made us.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and
gratefully acknowledged;
As with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States...
To set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving;
And praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.”
--- Abraham Lincoln - 1863
"You have much to be thankful for;
Whoever you are and whatever your circumstances.
Look around.
Look up.
Appreciate those who love you;
And those you love.
The rest is bullshit."
---Cliff Fazzolari 2012
Happy Birthday to my brother John. The old bastard.
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