{"id":83004,"date":"2018-11-22T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83004"},"modified":"2018-11-21T21:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T01:04:46","slug":"we-gather-to-give-thanks-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83004","title":{"rendered":"We Gather to Give Thanks For…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanksgiving Day is upon us. Most of us gather with family, stuff ourselves, and sack out in front of the TV to watch football or whatever. Some of us do other things, like wash dishes and deal with leftovers, especially the excessive amount of gravy that will come in handy through the weekend. We have a place to go to, or maybe we have the place people come to, gathering for this one day when we’re supposed to be thankful for something.<\/p>\n

I know when the birds show up for their portion, they wait patiently until I put out the bird food and then I go into my bird observatory with a camera at the ready. They know I’m there. \u00a0I’m just glad they show up.<\/p>\n

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D-Day stuff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Me: I’m grateful to live in a country where i’m free to come and go as I please, without having to produce identity papers or a voter ID card like they do in Venezuela, just to be allowed to buy food, because someone beat the crap out of some Very Bad Guys a year or so before I was born.<\/p>\n

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I’m grateful that I can go to a store and pick up good food at a reasonable price and can count on finding more the next time I go, without stiffing myself financially.<\/p>\n

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I’m thankful that I can be out at sunset to get shots of incoming migrating geese\u00a0without having to explain myself.<\/p>\n

There are people who want to take these things away from us. Freedom is a threat to them. They are afraid of a free people like us.<\/p>\n

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.<\/p>\n

I never want to lose it.<\/p>\n

Here’s your place to tell us what you’re grateful for. \u00a0Like someone used to say to us, “Knock yourselves out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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