Monday, November 22, 2021

THANKSGIVING

 It's Haibun Monday at dVerse, and Frank has asked us to consider in these troubled times those things for which we are grateful.  Submitted to dVerse, November 22, 2021.

My grandfather was a man of small stature, usually wearing  bib overalls.  His forbears founded the first Methodist church in the settlement just north of the Ohio not many years after the Revolution.  Each succeeding generation lived simply, working hard to scrape a living from the land.  Grandpa bowed his head each day at supper, and thanked his God for simple things -- food for sustenance, weather for his crops, the roof over his head, and his family.  I’m grateful I learned from him that these simple things are truly the necessities of life.  All the rest is detritus, the miscellaneous claptrap we think we need today, the embellishments of the necessities.  


grandpa had it right

we just need the basic stuff

giving thanks for enough

15 comments:

  1. A good one. Your grandpa was right.

    Pat

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  2. Miscellaneous claptrap. Great description! Beautiful in its simplicity!

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  3. A wonderful Haibun, Beverly. You had a wise grandpa! Such important words of wisdom for our time! Well done.

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  4. Well that was a lovely read and what a powerful message..

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  5. Well done. Bev
    Thanks for dropping by to read mine

    Much💛love

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  6. Wonderful haibun. Sometimes,its the simple things that really make the difference! :D

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  7. Happy 🦃 Thanksgiving Bev! Touching pievpce! 🙂

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  8. To be content and grateful to Giver is wisdom indeed! LOVE that old painting too...my grandparents had it hanging in their home.

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  9. He was right. So many people would agree, yet we still hanker after the frills.

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  10. Thanking for what you have, and doing your best... isn't that what life should be,

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  11. you have a wise grand dad. this is beautiful

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  14. I don't think anybody could say it any better than this, Bev.

    Yours,
    David [ben Alexander]

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