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10-13-2014, 06:06 PM

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courage2

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Join Date: Nov 2012

Location: NYC

Posts: 19,081

Good evening, friends!

Welcome back to Panacea & halfvictory & ANewDayNYC ! Whether you’re new to SR, new to this thread, just coming back, counting days or years, we’re glad you’re here!

Congratulations to DaneK on 6 sea-salty sober months to HeartsAfire on 60 grateful days and to all, congratulations and thanks for today!

Here’s the list of those who’ve made part of their commitment to sobriety include posting on this thread from about 8:30 p.m. October 12 to 8:30 p.m. on October 13, NYC local time:

1newcreation
21Hope
afloatsober
airwick
AlcoholFree66
altoids
Alynn
Alysheba
ANewDayNYC
BarbieKen
Beanie25
biminiblue
Bubovski
calico
Cascabel
casinva
charleesavedme
ChloeRose63
Coldfusion
courage2
DaneK
Dee74
EJM824
erfra7
Findingtheway
Fiona630
Flynbuy
ForgiveMeAll
ForMeForThem
GentleSoul
Gilmer
Goat
goose333
Grateful11
grtgrandpa
gvrecovery
halfvictory
HeartsAfire
Hevyn
j808
jsm273
Kaneda8888
Kiya
Kris47
least
mystified
Panacea
Salgal
sickofthiscrap
SnowDawg
sthlondonab
Suziequeue
Tamerua
tgirl
tootsl1
VikingGF
Waterfalls2014
XIIIXXIXXVI
yukonm
zeppodog

Canadian Thanksgiving (French L'Action de grâce) – do we have any Canadians on the thread? If so, happy day! Who can argue with at least the concept of a harvest festival? If, like me, you’re not Canadian, and like me, you find Thanksgiving Day more pleasant in theory than in fact, celebrate with the Canadians, in theory, today! Think of the word “cornucopia,” the horn of plenty. May it never be empty for you!

No matter where you are, it’s always good to remember those who had serious gratitude. I’m thinking particularly of those who go to sea, inspired by DaneK, with his hard-won milestone, and because the Wikipedia entry on Canadian Thanksgiving links its origins to the Frobisher expedition in 1578 to find the Northwest Passage, and because today is also Columbus Day in the U.S., yet another sailor. For thousands of years, those who travel the seas have fallen to their knees in gratitude on reaching land. The image below was taken on the return on the Frams expedition of Fridtjof Nansen, which went to find the North Pole in 1893, & spent most of the next 3 years roaming around the Arctic quite lost.

Whether your voyage has been one that took you over the edge of the flat earth only to find it was round, like Columbus, or that seemed to trap you in harsh and frozen places, like Frobisher, you’re on your way home, now.

May we all find safe landing here again tomorrow!