Hope everyone has a bountiful table and eats too much!
Radin's book has some kind words for our Lizzie on this holiday:
"Her interest in children included more than allowing a group of neighborhood boys to pick unwanted pears from the ground. With a group of friends she organized annual Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners for poor children and newsboys and she was an active worker in the kitchen, cooking and loading their plates."
How many of us can say we've done that? I'm afraid not I.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Harry
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you, and everyone else, Harry. I miss the gatherings. Most of my family is in the spirit world. I wish that I could do more to help the people who are going through hardships. I like the idea of food/thrift shops on wheels going to the people who can't get help. We had a bus like that come to my neighborhood in 1954. It made so much sense.
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Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone!
You know how it is when you are the one doing the cooking on Thanksgiving - you're so tired by the time the guests come, there's a limit on the fun part.
Harry, I think you expressed part of the truth behind what Thanksgiving should mean. I haven't worked in the soup kitchens our chuch is affiliated with on a rotation basis. One or both of my kids did a few years back. (I have done the local food pantry and our church thrift shop - just loved it.)
Lizzie working to serve holiday dinners was so good of her to do. She did a lot of good things all her life, and was a believer in the church. This is something that makes me think that if she was like that, and truly like that in her heart, she could not have done the murders. And her burial instructions include the religious things she wanted said, which makes me think she was religious to the end. I do believe those who knew her and said they know she could never have done it believed in what they said. I gotta say, with all the charity in her, how could she have.
You know how it is when you are the one doing the cooking on Thanksgiving - you're so tired by the time the guests come, there's a limit on the fun part.
Harry, I think you expressed part of the truth behind what Thanksgiving should mean. I haven't worked in the soup kitchens our chuch is affiliated with on a rotation basis. One or both of my kids did a few years back. (I have done the local food pantry and our church thrift shop - just loved it.)
Lizzie working to serve holiday dinners was so good of her to do. She did a lot of good things all her life, and was a believer in the church. This is something that makes me think that if she was like that, and truly like that in her heart, she could not have done the murders. And her burial instructions include the religious things she wanted said, which makes me think she was religious to the end. I do believe those who knew her and said they know she could never have done it believed in what they said. I gotta say, with all the charity in her, how could she have.