Having just passed, Halloween is always remembered fondly. During the years I was a child, it was a different world, people were still rather naive and the main monsters were ghosts, werewolves, Frankenstein, walking dead and Communists. Now you can find different kinds of monsters preying on chiildren, murdering spouses, dealing harmful chemicals, texting while driving, working on Wall Street, mortgage brokers, politicians and last but not least masquerading as purple dinosaurs. Still it was at a Halloween dance at school I worked up the nerve to ask a young lady to dance with me and I began to experience a new side of the "opposite sex". Gave a whole new meaning to "Trick or Treat"...
Thanksgiving day was a time of friends and family when I was growing up. Dad was military and we moved around a lot. No matter where we were though, we always had a house full of people. Mostly friends we had taken to like family in the various places we came to know as home. Dad always invited the single airmen in his squadron to spend the day with us. There would always be enough food to feed a small army. Usually the married non-coms wives got together and planned a royal feast. Mother always cooked a turkey and a ham and there would also be grilled meats and wild game. More appetizers and side dishes than you could sample at once and if I were to start on dessert this post would take much too long to read and leave me very hungry and salivating to a froth....
Thanksgiving was wonderful then....but, it became a day of sorrow once I was grown. Thanksgiving was the day my brother died. That's a story that will wait for another post. Just know that Tom died as the result of a car wreck many, many Thanksgivings ago, that day is a time to keep exceptionally busy so that I don't have time to dwell on it...and of course it leads to the fact that Tom was born on Christmas Day.....needless to say I don't feel thankful or merry during the holidays...but I try to put on a brave front. Tom was my best friend and touchstone to my past.... I shall miss him always and still do things just because I think it would be something he would have been interested in... ces't la vie
Just remember that there is a day just for all you turkeys out there...and its coming...is it not strange that the sound we associate with turkeys also means to hurriedly consume food....gobble, gobble....
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!!
